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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“The defeated go down in history and disappear, and their stories die with them.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“Silence becomes a woman.' Every woman I’ve ever known was brought up on that saying.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“I thought: Suppose, suppose just once, once, all these centuries, the slippery gods keep their word and Achilles is granted eternal glory in return for his early death under the walls of Troy...? What will they make of us, the people of those unimaginably distant times? One thing I do know: they won't want the brutal reality of conquest and slavery. They won't want to be told about the massacres of men and boys, the enslavement of women and girls. They won't want to know we were living in a rape camp. No, they'll go for something altogether softer. A love story, perhaps? I just hope they manage to work out who the lovers were.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
bell’s 2025 Year in Books
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300 books
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16 friends
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91 books
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145 books
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22 books
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1,890 books
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116 books
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