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Kim Wassenaar
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“Do you know what the biggest thread to women’s health is?’’
‘’Men,’’ Louisa says, because all women know that.”
― My Friends
‘’Men,’’ Louisa says, because all women know that.”
― My Friends
“But still, it has surprised me, over the years, to discover how many people find the idea of habitual kindness to be somehow suspect: a mask or a lie.”
― Stone Yard Devotional
― Stone Yard Devotional
“There may be a word in another language for what brought me to this place; to describe my particular kind of despair at that time. But I've never heard a word to express what I felt and what my body knew, which was that I had a need, an animal need, to find a place I had never been but which was still, in some undeniable way, my home.”
― Stone Yard Devotional
― Stone Yard Devotional
“Human rights' are meaningless if the ecosystems that sustain us do not have the legal right to exist.”
― Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
― Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
“That’s all of life. All we can hope for. You mustn’t think about the fact that it might end, because then you live like a coward, you never love too much or sing too loudly. You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Kim’s 2025 Year in Books
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