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“From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.”

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Alice Smith

Alice Smith, born in 1978, is a talented singer whose musical style blends various elements, winning the hearts of her audience. more

“claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.”

Men Should Children Long Important Ideas Used Mother Values Fun Natural Roles Should Have Claims Notion Gender Traditional Sexism Inherent Innate Gender Roles

Author:Jessica Valenti

“[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.”

Sex Morality Superiors Ideology Virginity Passivity Having Sex

Author:Jessica Valenti

“Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.”

Nature Born Spring Association Earnest

Author:Laura Gilpin

“A river finds its course with sureness, pushing aside whatever surface matter lies in its way, and as it gathers volume and resulting strength, nothing can withstand its progress. It carves canyons, moves great boulders, erodes the soil, moving insistently onward in its surging need to reach its final goal - the ocean.”

Way Needs Matter Moving Lying Courses Goal Progress Ocean Rivers Finals Surface Soil Pushing Volume Canyons Erode Boulders

Author:Laura Gilpin

“Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.”

Wells Possibility Connecting Networking

Author:Adele Scheele

“On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.”

Needs Humans Jobs Differences Human Beings Levels Support Personality Despite Recognition

Author:Adele Scheele

“In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.”

Stories Novel Faults Charity Exposed Multitudes Craftsmanship

Author:Thea Astley

“you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.”

Spiritual Concern Oneness Mundane Modernity

Author:G. Willow Wilson

“So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.”

Wells Fighting Space Rooms Bottom Oppression Fighting Each Other

Author:Cheryl Clarke

“For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.”

America Culture Males Sexuality Resistance Racist Capitalist North America Homophobic

Author:Cheryl Clarke

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