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“It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…
But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….
….. and you’ll erase me completely.”
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But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….
….. and you’ll erase me completely.”
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“We are in the midst of a violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women’s advancement: the beauty myth. It is the modern version of a social reflex that has been in force since the Industrial Revolution. As women released themselves from the feminine mystique of domesticity, the beauty myth took over its lost ground, expanding as it waned to carry on its work of social control.”
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
“In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.”
― Write like no one is reading
― Write like no one is reading
“What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
Q & A with Emma Donoghue
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The winner of the 2010 Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction is answering questions about ROOM, the gripping story of a mother and son held captive in an ...more
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