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#1 My mom was my college advisor, and she was excited for me to go to Harvard. She had worked hard to make sure I was enrolled in good schools with the resources that matched my potential. She had shown up to countless parent-teacher conferences and advocated for me when racist policies might have otherwise jeopardized my future.
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#1 When you're single, you may try to downplay your sexuality because you don't want to get tempted, but once you're married, embrace it because it is awesome. God made sex to be so wonderful that for a few moments, it's as if the only people who exist in the world are you and your husband.
#2 Sex is much more than just a physical act. We often degrade it to be less than it was created...
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#1 The Parallel Universe is a place where the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest, and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction.
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#1 I was done with dieting, and I was done with being the fat girl. I was finally happy and healthy, except for the fact that I was still fat. I wanted this issue resolved so I could move on and live my life.
#2 I knew that asking for help wasn't my favorite thing, but I knew from experience that it worked. I decided to find a food shrink of sorts, an intuitive eating...
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#1 My mother, Janice Marylin Gardner, was born in 1960. She met her husband, Paul Eli Margulies, when she was twenty-one years old. He was fifteen years her senior and nervous about the age difference, but they were together for three years.
#2 My mother, who was born in Brazil, met my father when she was twenty-three, in the original production of My Fair Lady. He was extremely handsome,...
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Book Preview: #1 Modern trans activism is based on four axioms: 1. You have an important inner state called a gender identity. 2. For some people, inner gender identity doesn't match the biological sex—male or female—originally assigned to them at birth. 3. Gender identity, not biological sex, is what makes you a man or a woman. 4. The existence of trans people generates a moral...
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Book Preview: #1 I had been living in New York for a year in 2009 when I met a man at a bar. I had been using a method that kept my blood flowing, even when my hands were cold, and he stayed hard. But when we made first contact, his boner melted into a wet Cheeto.
#2 I was looking forward to having fun in New York City, but after five consecutive pudding penises, I began to want a...
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Get the Summary of Liza Mundy's Code Girls in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Recruited by the US Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than 10,000 women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of codebreaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless...
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#1 The Great War, which saw two and a half million Germans die and four million wounded, left a discernible line in the sand between the victors and the vanquished. For Germany, the vanquished, losing the war left the turmoil of economic uncertainty, unbridled violence, and boiling resentment.
#2 In the 1930s, the German government passed increasingly harsh laws against...
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#1 Flying was expensive in 1972, so most Americans took car trips instead. My parents were no exception. They always took car trips to visit my father's relatives in Indiana.
#2 I was 10 years old in 1967, and I was excited to visit Expo 67 in Montreal. My mother, however, was terrified of the bridge collapse and the island sinking, so we didn't go. I was ready...
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#1 On February 25, 2010, John's mother, Cathy, went out for a jog to find him. She couldn't see any sign of him, and he hadn't answered any of her calls or texts. She was worried about him and decided to look for him at the San Dieguito River Valley.
#2 John's mother, Cathy, had been trying to get him help for his mental health and substance abuse problems. But every...
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#1 The notion of misogyny is becoming more and more prevalent in the media. It is typically defined as a property of individual agents who are prone to feel hatred, hostility, or other similar emotions toward any and all women, simply because they are women.
#2 My goal in the first part of the book is to undertake what Sally Haslanger has called an analytical or ameliorative...
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Get the Summary of Kate Moore's The Radium Girls in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore is a gruesome account of the effects of radium on young women who worked with radium-based paint in the first part of the twentieth century. Centering on two exploitative radium plants in Orange, New Jersey and Ottawa, Illinois,...
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#1 Rosie was going to be bringing a very important man to Cottisbourne. She was bringing a major-general, no less! She was sure he wouldn't be scared of ghosts.
#2 Nancy went ghost hunting, and she was excited to see what she would find. She was driving to London, and she was accompanied by a smile from Rosie.
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Get the Summary of Danielle Prescod's Token Black Girl in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Token Black Girl" is a memoir by Danielle Prescod that delves into her personal experiences of growing up as a Black girl in predominantly white spaces. She recounts her childhood in Westchester County, where she attended white private schools and felt disconnected from her own community. Her family rarely discussed race,...
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#1 Girl is a term of endearment between Black women that has always been present in my life. It is a greeting, exclamation, and rallying cry at once.
#2 I didn't recognize myself in the pantomimes of Black women, and I didn't want to play into the outdated stereotypes. I built up a network of Black friends in London, and the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic began to spread.
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#1 I was in Dublin in the late 1940s, and I was blown away by the city. I was ravenous for food, life, and stories. I stood in awe of the Gresham Hotel, which was built in 1809 to celebrate the victory of Nelson over Napoleon in the Battle of Trafalgar.
#2 I was proud to be going to the chemist's shop with such dignity. I was wearing my best clothes, and I was sure...
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#1 I had night terrors as a child, and I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling my chest tighten and my heart race. I would never let boys see my privates, even if they were tricked into doing so.
#2 I was the difficult child, and I knew it. I was always getting in fights, and my mother never seemed to understand or believe me when I told her about them.
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#1 Blair was fond of the Explorers Club's ban on women members. She thought that women were falling into the same trap as men when they announced that they were the first white woman to do something. She knew there was a fine line between showing strength when danger loomed ahead and completely disregarding that danger.
#2 Mickie was not afraid of taking risks, as she...
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#1 I could see the mischievous, giggly faces of my cousins as I drove down the path of my memory. I could smell the smell of a feedlot, which brought back memories of my datt's cattle and sheep barn that eventually went to nothing.
#2 I was excited to be spending the night with my sisters, but I was also nervous about getting caught with the truck. I was sure that my...