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“Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”
― View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
keep saying that there's no such thing.
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”
― View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.”
― Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness
― Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness
“Dying - you can't do that to a cat.”
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“And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.”
― Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness
― Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness
“Indeed, pursuing pleasure, Seneca warns, is like pursuing a wild beast: On being captured, it can turn on us and tear us to pieces. Or, changing the metaphor a bit, he tells us that intense pleasures, when captured by us, become our captors, meaning that the more pleasures a man captures, “the more masters will he have to serve.”
― A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
― A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Edith’s 2025 Year in Books
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