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“Passo ore a sentirmi indistruttibile, a esser certo che nulla mi tocchi, che nulla potrà ferirmi abbastanza da farmi indietreggiare, e poi arrivi tu.”

Book:Prometo Falhar

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“Dylan leans in real slow. "I told you Europeans were different," he whispers. "No foolin'." The rest of the event goes about the same. The Italians come at me on after the other, leaving the softball questions at home. Nothing but the fastballs coming fast, hard, and inside. "How does your book fit into the neo-postmodern landscape?" one of them asks. Three rows back," I say, giving another patented chuckle. "Are you a Hegelian?" another asks. "Only with the ladies," I answer. Whoever said you have to know what a word means to be able to answer to it?”

European Literature Book Tour National Book Award For Fiction

Book:People Like Us

Source: People Like Us

“I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not.”

Religion

Book:The Meaning of Night

Source: The Meaning of Night

“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the creatures of his own imagination with the females of actual life.”

Feminine Ideal

Book:Waverley

Source: Waverley

“Both Chicano and Puerto Rican activists continually stressed the importance of community control of local institutions, arguing that oppression and inequality would never end until Chicanos and Puerto Ricans controlled the institutions that directly affected community life.”

Community Civil Rights Latino Puerto Rico Chicano Latino History Puertorico Chicano History

Book:The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

Source: The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

“El Grito Del Norte,’ a Chicano newspaper based in Espanola, New Mexico, was born from the revolutionary flames that engulfed the Southwest in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.”

Newspapers 1960s New Mexico Chicano Southwestern Us Chicano History

Book:Enriqueta Vasquez And the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte (Hispanic Civil Rights)

Source: Enriqueta Vasquez And the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte (Hispanic Civil Rights)

“God is a woman, by the way. Likely a transgender woman of color, according to contemporary biblical scholars (i.e., me, my friends, and Ariana Grande).”

Hilarious God Is A Woman

Book:Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

Source: Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

“Prostitution is not a profession, it is the result of sexism and gender oppression.”

Women Feminism Sexism Prostitution Gender Oppression

Author:Nocturnus Libertus

“No woman (or man) becomes a corporate manager, gets tenure at a university, or is elected to public office by showing their capacity for cooperation, sharing, emotional sensitivity, and nurturing.”

Feminism Privilege Gender Roles Gender Inequality Feminist Theory Gender Oppression Care Work

Book:Privilege, Power, and Difference

Source: Privilege, Power, and Difference

“...It is impossible," I concluded, "to find any satisfaction in the thought of 25,000 slaughtered Germans, left to mutilation and decay; the destruction of men as though beasts, whether they be English, French, German or anything else, seems a crime to the whole march of civilization.”

World War I Vera Brittain Testament Of Youth Oxford Versus War

Author:Vera Brittain

“What is God, and all for which we’re striving? Sweetest skeptic, we were born for living. Life is Love, and Love is – You, dear, you.”

Vera Brittain Testament Of Youth

Author:Roland Leighton

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