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Ellen is Currently Reading

Ellen Simon is currently reading

Pretty Girls

by Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: thriller-mystery-horror, currently-reading

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Ellen’s Notes & Highlights

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

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The gender binary is a cultural belief that there are only two distinct and opposite genders: man and woman. This belief is upheld by a system of power that exists to create conflict and division, not to celebrate creativity and diversity.

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Ellen’s Quotes

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey

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“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: dreams, life, time

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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

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“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

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“I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it.”
― John Cage

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