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The Women by Kristin Hannah

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The unrest going on across the country these days, erupting on city streets and college campuses, was a distant and alien world to her, as incomprehensible as the conflict in faraway Vietnam.

This writing is incredible

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I remember it during the Vietnam conflict. I lived it.

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Emily’s Quotes

“There is no such thing as a perfect leader. We have to learn to lead ourselves.”
― Gloria Steinem

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“What appalling tales we shall have to tell of the strange lands we visited; and of those lands, surely none was stranger or more barbaric than Rome!”
― Steven Saylor, A Gladiator Dies Only Once

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“I like to do things certain ways and I disagree with everybody but I don't even want to argue.”
― George Balanchine

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“Listening's reading if you close your eyes. Music's a wood you walk through.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

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“But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned.”
― John Williams, Augustus

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