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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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You got to have something to comb hair over. When you see uh woman doin’ so much rakin’ in her head, she’s combin’ at some man or ’nother.”

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“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: dark-humor, humor, marriage, women-s-strength

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“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
― Charles de Lint, Moonheart

tags: qotd, wonders

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“She is equal parts manic brutality and strategic fuckery.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Mirror Empire

tags: kameron-hurley, quotes-about-women, the-mirror-empire, wicked-women

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“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: body, doctrine, ethics, law, morality, principles, religion, soul, steadfastness, temptation

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“Multi-lateralism's dilemma: that the inclusion of more actors increases the legitimacy of a process or organization at the same time as it decreases its efficiency and utility.”
― Richard N. Haass, Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order

tags: current-affairs, foreign-policy, multi-lateralism, political-theoryory

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