Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Top 10 Best Quotes
“be a person with knowledge not just opinions”
“gender is one of the biggest lies of our civilization”
“... ageing is nothing to be ashamed of especially when the entire human race is in it together”
“privilege is about context and circumstance”
“Ageing is nothing to be ashamed of Especially when the entire race is in it together Although sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting older Because it’s such a privilege to not die prematurely”
“life is an adventure to be embraced with an open mind and loving heart”
“it’s important to counterbalance the state of being cerebral with the state of being corporeal”
“she didn’t tell them she’d taken her father for granted and carried her blinkered, self-righteous perspective of him from childhood through to his death, when in fact he’d done nothing wrong except fail to live up to her feminist expectations of him”
“women who miraculously spend their working day wearing bondage-tight skirts and vertiginous, destabilizing heels which make their feet look bound the erogenous zones of crushed muscles and cramped bones, encased in upmarket strippers’ heels and if she has to cripple herself to signal her education, talent, intellect, skills and leadership potential then so be it”
“his bredren and sistren could damned well speak up for themselves why should he carry the burden of representation when it will only hold him back? white people are only required to represent themselves, not an entire race”
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Book Keywords:
death, aging, dying, getting-older
