Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books
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Read between May 2 - May 4, 2025
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be a much better place if more folks stepped out of the boxes they’d come packed in and opened their minds to the mysteries of the universe.
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And so I told him I wasn’t interested in following rules that make life harder for girls so it can be easier for boys.
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When you have everything, the only luxury left is taking things away from others.
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As far as he was concerned, if your faith was shaken by foul words or sex scenes, then you must not have had very much to begin with.
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There is no need to make magic. There is magic all around us. We need only to recognize it and make use of what is already there.
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The worst thing you could do as a parent, she thought, was to shield young women from the ugliness of the world—then blame them when they did not see it coming.
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“You get to choose whose footsteps you’ll follow.
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“But that’s not what’s important. What matters is never letting people tell you what to think.
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Gather as much knowledge as you can, because information is power.
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That’s why libraries exist—to make sure people always have access to the information they need.
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Every day, we help people find answers to questions that they’re terrified to ask.”
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The New Testament tells us we’re supposed to follow Christ, not the old ways.
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You get to choose whose footsteps you’ll follow, Jeanette Newman had told the young Beverly. Find a set that went in the right direction.