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The Art of Catching a Greek Billionaire (Greek Billionaire, Damen & Mairi, #1)

by Marian Tee (Goodreads Author)

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The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)

by Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)

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Bildung: Alles, was man wissen muß

by Schwanitz

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Eva’s Quotes

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

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“It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work”
― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

tags: educational, injustice, oppression

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“Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.”
― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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“The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.”
― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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“More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century.

The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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