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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
How sobering it was to read this passage, located at the very end of this inimitable feminist tome written 75 years ago, and know we have not achieved any of the above ideals.
4.25
A world where men and women would be equal is easy to imagine because it is exactly the one the Soviet revolution promised: women raised and educated exactly like men would work under the same conditions and for the same salaries....marriage would be based on a free engagement that the spouses could break when they wanted to; motherhood would be freely chosen—that is, birth control and abortion would be allowed—and in return all mothers and their children would be given the same rights; maternity leave would be paid for by the society that would have responsibility for the children, which does not mean that they would be taken from their parents but that they would not be abandoned to them.
How sobering it was to read this passage, located at the very end of this inimitable feminist tome written 75 years ago, and know we have not achieved any of the above ideals.
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity by Jill Burke
3.75
BRB, just setting up my kitchen to make some of Caterina Sforza's "Very Light and Most Excellent Rouge."
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
4.75
Reading this book series in third grade irreparably altered my taste in media. The Bad Beginning is an irreverent dark comedy that rivals any Lanthimos film. Also, I love that the Poe children are named Edgar and Allen.