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Amanda
https://www.goodreads.com/grumpy_feminist
Sometimes I see people at the supermarket or somewhere else mundane, smiling and cheerfully making small talk with strangers and not looking tense or uncomfortable at all, and I just want to go up and ask them how they do it.
“We will not let ourselves be intimidated by the number and violence of attacks against women; nor be fooled by the self-serving praise showered on the “real woman”; nor be won over by men’s enthusiasm for her destiny, a destiny they would not for the world want to share.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“Pero quién no es, de vez en cuando, una mancha en la vida de alguien”
― The Private Lives of Trees
― The Private Lives of Trees
“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
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