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Melissa is Currently Reading

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Eating More Asian America: A Food Studies Reader

by Robert Ji-Song Ku

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Mythos

by Stephen Fry

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Book cover for Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun

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Yet somehow for this generation of women, the belief that girls could do anything morphed into a directive that they must do everything.

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“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: life

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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

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“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

9114 likes

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

tags: calm, excitement, storm, women

884 likes

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