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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
Family tells, my dear. Breeding tells.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
I want to tell you that your oppression will not save you, that being a victim will not enlighten you, that it can just as easily deceive you.
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
"Because--the difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves."
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers
When she felt alone and wished she had a mother who loved her, she tried to comfort herself by thinking that fate had raised her above ordinary people.
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
The strange thing about good people, Eliza had noticed, was the manner in which they saw that same quality everywhere and in everyone, when in truth it is vanishingly rare.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
When husbands, fathers, and brothers are granted absolute power, their morality vanishes; they become tyrants.
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
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