Ashley A-F
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Yet somehow for this generation of women, the belief that girls could do anything morphed into a directive that they must do everything.
“Life was good back then, in the crappy, oppressive way life is good for fourteen year olds, which is to say, it completely sucked but seems pretty good in the obscuring glare of nostalgia.”
― Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine
― Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine
“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas that have lasted thousands of years, or just since the most recent Harry Potter. I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because they just feel good in my hands, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.”
― My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
― My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
“Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42 percent of the time.”
― My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
― My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
“But who cares? Memory isn't about reality, and neither is music. It's about the comforting reflections we want to hold on to, even if they're mostly bullshit.”
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“I smile gently while churning inside and thinking about what I’ve learned is a signature characteristic of the phobic personality: “the need and ability”—as described in the self-help book Your Phobia—“to present a relatively placid, untroubled appearance to others, while suffering extreme distress on the inside.”c”
― My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
― My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
Edith Wharton
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Discussion of literature by Edith Wharton and her biographies
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