Ashley A-F
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Yet somehow for this generation of women, the belief that girls could do anything morphed into a directive that they must do everything.
“But who cares? Memory isn't about reality, and neither is music. It's about the comforting reflections we want to hold on to, even if they're mostly bullshit.”
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“If being a girl is a frontier all its own, what is the manifest destiny?”
― The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
― The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
“The fact that Nellie wasn't any one person but rather a composite of three of the real Laura's antagonists' worst traits makes her even more terrifying, some kind of blond Frankenstein assembled from assorted bitch parts.”
― The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
― The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
“If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42 percent of the time.”
― My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
― My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
Edith Wharton
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Discussion of literature by Edith Wharton and her biographies
Discussion of literature by Edith Wharton and her biographies
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