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“Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.”

Book:They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor

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They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor

The book delves into the various ways in which women employ humor as a tool for navigating life's challenges, offering insights into its role in self-expression and resilience. more

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Gina Barreca

Gina Barreca is a renowned American professor, born in 1957. Her academic contributions are primarily focused on women's studies, literary criticism, and cultural theory. more

“While I do not believe the earth loaned to us by our ancestors should be plagued by chemical horrors and thereby corrupted for future generations, neither do I believe I should have to face anything that has more eyes than I have during dinner. It was my rule when I was dating and, heck, it's still my rule now.”

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“Turning a breakup into a break-over ... We want women to know that as bad as it can be, it can also be an opportunity to reinvent yourself.”

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“Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only difference between a living and a dead body is, that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. When it is extinct or entirely latent, the molecules obey a superior attraction, which draws them asunder and scatters them through space. This dispersion must be death, if it is possible to conceive such a thing as death where the very molecules of the dead body manifest an intense vital energy.”

Source: Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)

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