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Maya is Currently Reading

Maya is currently reading

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

by Howard Zinn

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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

by Katherine Eban (Goodreads Author)

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— Aug 20, 2019 12:57PM

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Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties

by Beth Kobliner (Goodreads Author)

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Maya’s Quotes

“Being mad at my own body for something it has no control over only succeeded in making everything hurt even more.”
― Lara Parker, Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics

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“Sex was everywhere. And since I couldn’t have it, at least not in the way that I felt was expected of me at the time, I believed that no one would ever want to be with me, and no one would ever be able to love me. I felt broken and incomplete.”
― Lara Parker, Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics

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“Lightness, like anything inherited at great cost, was a lonely gift.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

tags: light, race

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“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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“I do not believe in the idea that going through pain like this is something to be grateful for. That it somehow makes me a stronger person, or more empathetic. I am not grateful for my pain. But I am grateful for the person I have become in spite of it.”
― Lara Parker, Vagina Problems

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