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Mai Gomaa
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“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Like Water for Chocolate
― Like Water for Chocolate
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.”
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“A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means...”
― Warrior of the Light
― Warrior of the Light
“To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
Mai’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mai’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
527 books
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111 friends
1,252 books
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148 friends
404 books
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874 friends
1,058 books
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1,235 friends
632 books
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218 friends
12 books
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2,853 friends
54 books
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1,647 friends
2,667 books
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2,304 friends
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