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“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
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“Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
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“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”
― Lone Wolf
― Lone Wolf
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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
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