Sarah Holland
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Sarah Holland
The tattoo argument had lost all of its sting over the years and had become something like a familiar room where they met.
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Station Eleven: A Novel
Emily St. John Mandel
To his wife’s claim that human beings could not be trusted to manage their own creations, Shelley argued that disease and disaster could be eradicated by human ingenuity. In her novel, Prometheus (Frankenstein) destroys everyone he loves. In his poem, Prometheus saves the world.
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
What has been surprising—pleasantly so—is that there really is no translation needed, that going deeper actually reveals the human. Get to the general through the specific, as the rule goes. Still, even as I have come to understand this, it feels abstract to me.
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.
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Station Eleven: A Novel
Emily St. John Mandel
But indefinite optimism seems inherently unsustainable: how can the future get better if no one plans for it?
Zero to One Peter Theil
I think all we want in the end is for our moms and for our daughters to forgive us.
Chelsea Devantez
Interestingly, despite the importance of her viewpoint, Margaret appears in the story only indirectly, through the letters of her brother—a structural echo of the role most women were forced to play in the lives of men, one step removed, distanced from the action.
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
Sanctity of time
Sanctity of man
Sanctity of space
Rabbi Heschel
For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.