Middlesex
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What’s the reason for studying history? To understand the present or avoid it?
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“Lina was one of those women they named the island after.”
Mackenzie Brown
The best possible way of describing a gay woman
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Americans like their presidents to have no more than two vowels. Truman. Johnson. Nixon. Clinton. If they have more than two vowels (Reagan), they can have no more than two syllables. Even better is one syllable and one vowel: Bush. Had to do that twice.
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“There was nowhere I could go that wouldn’t be you.”
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With shocking speed, Aunt Lina had quit her job at the florist’s shop and moved down to the Southwest with Mrs. Watson.
Mackenzie Brown
Typical!
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I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
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There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.
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Was I really a slut? I hadn’t even liked it.