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#1

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

tags: books, metaphor, soul

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#2

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#3

“But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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#4

“I'd rather be broken than wasted.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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#5

“Don't make me angry-kiss you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

tags: funny, levi

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#6

“She was tired of being the one who cried.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

tags: feelings

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#7

“Reading is not lonely.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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#8

“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, flattery, gender, hypocrisy, independence, men, misogyny, rationality, reason, self-determination, self-sufficiency, social-norms, stereotypes, strength, women, women-s-rights

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#9

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: beauty, conditioning, feminism, inequality, misogyny, stereotypes, women

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#10

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#11

“People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, death, dying, jennifer-niven, life, suicide

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#12

“Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

tags: all-the-bright-places, feel, finch, lie, violet

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#13

“I am on the highest branch.
We are written in paint.
I believe in signs.
The glow of Ultraviolet.
A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#14

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights

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#15

“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: double-standards, empowerment, feminism, freedom, gender, hypocrisy, independence, misogyny, morality, self-determination, social-norms, virtue, women

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#16

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#17

“All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#18

“The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a taste for more refined pleasures; he has never felt the calm and refreshing satisfaction. . . .of being loved by someone who could understand him.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#19

“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: charity, justice

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#20

“Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#21

“Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#22

“Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#23

“Nay the honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#24

“I presume that RATIONAL men will excuse me for endeavouring to persuade them to become more masculine and respectable.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: men

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#25

“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: men, women

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#26

“Besides, the woman who strengthens her body and exercises her mind will, by managing her family and practising various virtues, become the friend, and not the humble dependent of her husband; and if she deserves his regard by possessing such substantial qualities, she will not find it necessary to conceal her affection, nor to pretend to an unnatural coldness of constitution to excite her husband's passions.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: women

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#27

“How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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#28

“Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, and to render 'assurance doubly sure,' one kind of despotism supports another.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: obedience, women

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#29

“Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: women

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#30

“The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: education, feminism

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