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“Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china. It was smooth, like the surface of a dish, and higher than their heads.”
― Oz: The Complete Collection
― Oz: The Complete Collection

“You are a scoundrel," she whispered furiously.
"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."
"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."
"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“As it turned out, nearly everything strange and disquieting about Trump â€� his punitive response to even mile criticism, his viscerally personal insults disguised as ‘jokes,â€� his willingness to spread wild rumors about his targets in order to discredit or shame them, his inability to stop lashing out or degrading certain women years after they’d left his life â€� was also a commonly reported behavior of domestic abusers.
Sady Doyle, “The Pathology of Donald Trump”
― Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America
Sady Doyle, “The Pathology of Donald Trump”
― Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America

“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me

“The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace

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