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The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 10, 2020 07:45AM

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

tags: chauvinism, misogyny, projection, sexism

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“Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

tags: butch, gender, gender-non-conforming, lesbian, nature, stone-butch-blues

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“A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”
― Aleister Crowley

tags: 28-theorems, awakening, inspirational, master-therion, truth, truth-of-life, universe, will

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“Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

tags: lgbt, mennonites, religion, transition, transitioning

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“Maybe convincing yourself that you could never transition is a defense mechanism that enabled you to survive high school, family, work—but like most defense mechanisms, it wasn’t conscious, and like most defense mechanisms, it became a pattern you weren’t aware of, and then, like most defense mechanisms, at some point it stopped making your life easier and started making your life harder.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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