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Saturday, July 17, 2010

"if she's right, and the majority of Twihards aren't necessarily interested in Team Jacob or Team Edward but on Team Female Protagonist Who Isn't Drinking Cosmos And Bitching About Her High Powered Magazine Job Whilst Wearing Designer Shoes And Looking Like A Movie Star. . ."
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  • I don't understand how this isn't front page news. (12/14/10)
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This is what it means to be among the colonizers, you do not have to listen to what the colonized have to say, especially if their ideas come from experience and not from books.
-bell hooks
but mostly we spend time together at work--listening to each other's stories. Mostly we talk about not having enough money, and not having enough love.
-bell hooks
The drama of woman lies in this conflict between the fundamental aspects of every subject--who always regards the self as essential--and the compulsions of a situation in which she is the inessential.
-Simone deBeauvoir
The story we tell ourselves about ourselves is fundamentally a lie; the truth lies outside, in what we do.
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  • An American Radical, by Susan Rosenberg
  • Drive, by Daniel H. Pink
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  • More hooks
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  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Again)
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  • The Shock Doctrine (3)
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