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None of This Is True
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Middlemarch
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Book cover for This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
Someone described racism to me as the smog we breathe. It is all around us; racism is everywhere. Our lives are polluted with racism and it harms us all. The more we are aware of this smog of racism, the better equipped we can become to ...more
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Ada Calhoun
“Listening to other women's stories this year has given me confirmation, finally, that our expectations have been absurd. So many women I spoke with--objectively successful women--felt ashamed of their perceived failures.

What if we're not failures? What if what we've done is good? At any rate, maybe it's good enough.”
Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

Mira Jacob
“There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't.”
Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Ada Calhoun
“If our generation has been told for decades that we have so much freedom, so many choices, such opportunities, the question women with young children face is: how free are we to reach for the stars in midlife if we have someone else depending on us? Especially when our concept of good parenting involves so much more brain space and such higher costs than it did for our mothers and grandmothers? And when we expect ourselves to be excellent, highly engaged parents while also being excellent, highly engaged employees?”
Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

Soraya Chemaly
“Anger has a bad rap, but it is actually one of the most hopeful and forward thinking of all our emotions. It begets transformation, manifesting our passion and keeping us invested in the world. It is a rational and emotional response to trespass, violation, and moral disorder. It bridges the divide between what “is” and what “ought” to be, between a difficult past and an improved possibility. Anger warns us viscerally of violation, threat, and insult.”
Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

Lindy West
“So no, excuse me, we will not play likability anymore. It's an endless runner—a game with no progress and no finish line—that women are expected to chase, that keeps us from doing the real work, accruing the real power. Chasing likability has been one of women's biggest setbacks, by design. I don't know that rejecting likability will get us anywhere, but I know that embracing it has gotten us nowhere.”
Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

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