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A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing
“Let these women dance among your days and with your nights. Dream better lives.” ~Dr. DaMaris B. Hill
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“I think you actually have to have all of your dreams come true to realize they are the wrong dreams.” ~Matthew Perry
Run Towards the Danger
“Please don't ever apologize for having a reasonable response to something difficult.” ~ Sarah Polley
Born Survivors
“We never thought anything would happen to us. We felt invincible,” ~Wendy Holden
The Nazi Officer’s Wife
“It was the individuals who made their own rules in this situation. No one forced them to behave in an unkind manner. The opportunity to act decently toward us was always available to them. Only the tiniest number of them ever used it.” ~Edith Hahn Beer
Untwisted
Untwisted unfolds LeClerc’s startling life and times from the mean streets of the Projects and inner-city Toronto, to the cell blocks and solitary confinement cells of super-maximum security prisons, to a dramatic life transformation.
I’m Glad My Mom Died
“She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and exploited.” ~ Jennette McCurdy
The Stories We Tell
“The problem with walls is that they shield you from feelings of pain and shame, maybe, but also goodness, also beauty.” ~Joanna Gaines
Meant 4 More
“I was 48 when everything changed—God called me to another level and showed me that my life was Meant 4 More!” ~ Brian Thomson
Brave
“Whatever is different about you is what makes you amazing. Others will try to homogenize you for their own comfort level, because God forbid discomfort…Do not bend yourself to make others feel taller.” ~Rose McGowan
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“She's the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?” ~Rebecca Skloot
The Year of Less
“There were really only two categories I could see: the stuff I used, and the stuff I wanted the ideal version of myself to use. The stuff I wanted the ideal version of myself to use was everything I had once bought in hopes that it would somehow make my life or myself better.” ~Cait Flanders
A Stolen Life
“I enjoy life so much more now, and I try hard to appreciate each and every day, but deep down I am still afraid it will be taken away.” ~Jaycee Dugard
I Have Lived a Thousand Years
“My hope is that learning about past evils will help us to avoid them in the future.” ~Livia Bitton-Jackson
Seven Women and the Secret of Their Greatness
“Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible. ~Eric Metaxas
The Hiding Place
“Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.” ~Corrie Ten Boom
The Complete Maus
“No, darling! To die it's easy... But you have to stuggle for life!” ~Art Spiegelman
The Radium Girls
“The radium girls,” the governor announced, “deserve the utmost respect and admiration…because they battled a dishonest company, an indifferent industry, dismissive courts and the medical community in the face of certain death…” ~Kate Moore
Through Gates of Splendor
“Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: 'Wherever you are, be all here. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.” ~Elisabeth Elliot
Say Nothing
“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.” ~Patrick Radden Keefe