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“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“We're all building our world, right now, in real time. Let's build it better.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“When Manya read, there was no waking her from her absorption; she heard nothing. A whole household might plan to tease and make a noise like all the zoos let loose with tin cans to play with and yet Manya wouldn't hear till her book was done. That was concentration and it was a joyful gift to have seized from the lucky-bag of life.”
― The Radium Woman: A Youth Edition of the Life of Madame Curie
― The Radium Woman: A Youth Edition of the Life of Madame Curie
“And then they blame us, as men have always blamed women, for prompting their lust, for fuelling their insatiable greed for something they cannot have.”
― The Surface Breaks
― The Surface Breaks
“The relationship between capitalism and eco-disaster is neither coincidental nor accidental: capital’s ‘need of a constantly expanding market’, its ‘growth fetish’, mean that capitalism is by its very nature opposed to any notion of sustainability.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Friends of The Bush School Library
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— last activity Mar 19, 2010 12:24PM
This group is open to all members of The Bush School community. For our first book we have chosen Asia on My Mind by Sally Wriggins '40. ...more
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