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Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signsall the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
Audiobook Narrator
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Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.
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Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
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When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.
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I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.
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Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.
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