Navel Gazing

the namesake

Sunday, August 1st, 2004

Cover of the namesake by jhumpa lahiriby jhumpa lahiri

Maybe the immigrant experience is universal, maybe it doesn’t depend on what country you have left or are working to integrate into. This book was far better than Interpreter of Maladies because of the continuity, the development of the characters, and the obvious sincerity with which it was written.

Oscar Wilde Quote

Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
– Oscar Wilde

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Feminist

Saturday, January 25th, 2003

To deny freedom, on the grounds that some may abuse it, disregards the possibility that the denial of freedom also fails to recognize our call to experience the fullness of human life.
~Patricia Mullins, Becoming Married, Towards a theology of marriage from a woman’s perspective

I think I’m becoming a feminist.
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