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“Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.”

Book:Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power

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Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power

This book examines the intricate and often fraught relationships between mothers and daughters, delving into moments of perceived betrayal and the transformative journey toward empowerment. It discusses how these familial conflicts can serve as catalysts for personal growth and the redefinition of identity, ultimately leading to a shift in power dynamics within the family and beyond. more

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Elizabeth Debold

Elizabeth Debold is an author whose works span various genres, including literature, social commentary, and children's literature. Her exact birth and death dates are unknown. more

“Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter's growing and changing self.”

Giving Feels Trying Looks Mean Self Feelings Mother Situation Growing Advice Particular Listening Daughter Adolescence Thoughts And Feelings Giving Advice Conspiring

Author:Elizabeth Debold

“No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.”

People Persons Earth Race Seeing Climate Soil

Book:Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America

Source: Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America

“To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.”

Ideas Ends Self Feelings Prejudice Shame Fingers Naked Appearing Starks Axioms Reproach Nudity

Book:Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana ... from the Year 1772 to 1777 ; Elucidating the History of that Country and Describing Its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, [etc.] Trees, Shrubs, [etc.] with an Account of the Indians and Negroes of Guinea

Source: Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana ... from the Year 1772 to 1777 ; Elucidating the History of that Country and Describing Its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, [etc.] Trees, Shrubs, [etc.] with an Account of the Indians and Negroes of Guinea

“A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.”

People Stills Moral Christianity Ignorance Civilization Errors Vices Genuine Rooted Mock Depravity Happy People

Book:Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777:: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions, ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea

Source: Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777:: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions, ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea

“Every town has an Elm Street.”

Evil Cities Streets Towns

Author:Michael De Luca

“My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.”

Self Facts Interesting Records Motive Ethical Confession Repent Diaries Shameless Investigators

Book:The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary

“As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!”

Ifs Born Existence Sun Cutting Alive Dresses Rose Get Up Immortal Cycles Breakfast Routine Baths Monotonous

Book:The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.”