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"“The Nine Curves River� by R. F. Kuang - 3.5/5
This was pretty well written but the one thing that held it back was that the characters felt a little depthless and more just archetypes. Like, wow older woman who’s jealous of the younger girl who’s extremely beautiful? Hmm, now where have I heard that before�" — Nov 10, 2024 09:20AM
"“The Nine Curves River� by R. F. Kuang - 3.5/5
This was pretty well written but the one thing that held it back was that the characters felt a little depthless and more just archetypes. Like, wow older woman who’s jealous of the younger girl who’s extremely beautiful? Hmm, now where have I heard that before�" — Nov 10, 2024 09:20AM

“Sleep deprivation even impacts DNA and learning-related genes in the brain involved in memory-making. Was that why other mothers didn’t talk about the reality of early motherhood or childbirth? Because they hadn’t made the memories?”
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
“Bianchi’s landmark paper on microchimerism describes pregnancy as enacting a ‘long-term, low-grade chimeric state in the human female�. From the moment I was pregnant, I didn’t just feel different. I was different. I am different. On a cellular level. I would never be singular again.”
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
― Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
“When my patients ask me what mental health means, here’s what I tell them: Mental health doesn’t involve the aim of eradicating uncomfortable emotions and life stressors. Rather, mental health involves practicing healthy ways to roll with, and grow from, life’s punches. It involves a state of mental functioning in which a person can experience productivity, satisfied relationships, meaning and purpose, high quality of life and possess the ability to cope with adversity.”
― Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry
― Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry

“Besides, as a model, Lucky was used to people taking pleasure in proving she was an idiot. It was a kind of protection against inadequacy, she assumed; if she was pretty but dumb, they could still feel superior, even a little righteous, finding, in their own lack of marketable beauty, a confirmation of their higher intelligence. But if the two weren’t causal? If it was possible to be both professionally attractive and smart? Then their own average looks served no purpose other than to disappoint, with Lucky acting as the hapless reminder. She’d found, in general, it was easier to keep her mouth shut and let people think whatever comforting thoughts they wanted about her. People seemed to hate her less that way.”
― Blue Sisters
― Blue Sisters

“It’s being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas. We’re being asked to believe that the US marines are actually on a feminist mission. (If so, will their next stop be America’s military ally Saudi Arabia?) Think of it this way: in India there are some pretty reprehensible social practices, against ‘Untouchables�, against Christians and Muslims, against women. Pakistan and Bangladesh have even worse ways of dealing with minority communities and women. Should they be bombed? Should Delhi, Islamabad, and Dhaka be destroyed? Is it possible to bomb bigotry out of India? Can we bomb our way to a feminist paradise? Is that how women won the vote in the United States? Or how slavery was abolished? Can we win redress for the genocide of the millions of Native Americans, upon whose corpses the United States was founded, by bombing Santa Fe?”
― My Seditious Heart: Collected Non-Fiction
― My Seditious Heart: Collected Non-Fiction

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