The Public Voice of Women: A London Review of Books Winter Lecture
By: Mary Beard
3.75
Format: None pages, ebook
I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recor…
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1. Men Explain Things to Me
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.83
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more
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"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
2. Like Water for Chocolate
By: Laura Esquivel , Carol Christensen , Thomas Christensen
3.95
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico becam… read more
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"Porque no quiero."-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
"ما إن عانقها حتى اختلج جسدها كما الهلام"-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
"Dicen que el sordo no oye, pero compone"-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
"Solo las ollas saben los hervores de su caldo."-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
3. King Kong théorie
By: Virginie Despentes
4.01
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more
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"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie
"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie
"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie
"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie
4. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
5. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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6. Kitchen
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more
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7. The Subjection of Women
By: John Stuart Mill
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
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8. I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and… read more
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"No hay manera de diferenciar un robot de un ser humano bueno"-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
"There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power."-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
9. Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David Thoreau
3.80
Format: None pages,
Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Go… read more
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10. Arráncame la vida
By: Ángeles Mastretta
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Arrancame la vida" is the first female interpretation of post-Revolutionary Mexico. With an enchan… read more
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11. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
12. Dare to Lead
By: Brené Brown
4.18
Format: 332 pages, ebook
In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brené Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and bra… read more
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13. The Public Voice of Women: A London Review of Books Winter Lecture
By: Mary Beard
3.75
Format: None pages, ebook
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