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Amanda
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It is the conundrum of being doubly subjugated: You are both invisible and hypervisible, stripped of humanity. And if you are not acknowledged at all, even in the most vulgar of ways, then do you still have a body? Are you still a woman
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From other reviews I gather that some people found passages like this problematic or confusing. But I think this is a perfectly reasonable paradox, it’s a thing that I feel very often. I spend all of my time feeling unseen, wanting to go unnoticed but at the same time broken-hearted at being completely invisible to people.
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
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“In part, that's because when we delay marriage, it's not just women who become independent. It's also men, who, like women, learn to clothe and feed themselves, to clean their homes iron their shirts and pack their own suitcases.”
― All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
― All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
“We read to know we're not alone.”
― Shadowlands: A Play
― Shadowlands: A Play
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“To be clear, the vast increase in the number of single women is to be celebrated not because singleness is in and of itself a better or more desirable state than coupledom. The revolution is in the expansion of options, the lifting of the imperative that for centuries hustled nearly all (non-enslaved) women, regardless of their individual desires, ambitions, circumstances, or the quality of available matches, down a single highway toward early heterosexual marriage and motherhood.”
― All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
― All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
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