Over the years, I’ve reread maybe three books? I’m not a huge rereader and not because I don’t want to be. I definitely want to get into the stories I’ve loved and cherished…
Golden advice from a gold medal winner.
Simone Biles might be the best gymnast we have ever seen, and is certainly the most dominant gymnast right now. She has won the last three world all-around titles (and is the first woman to do so),…
You know Simone Ashley from Netflix's Sex Education, and now she's the next star of Bridgerton and a new source for Lady Whistledown's gossip.
Simone Weil, Waiting for God, 171-172
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.
It's all about the boots and Oreos.
US championship gymnast Simone Biles dropped out of Olympia for a reason. Here are 6 key lessons to learn from her decision.
Simone Biles was set to return to Olympics competition on Tuesday morning in the balance beam event finals after withdrawing from three events over mental health reasons.
In an introduction to a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” Jenny Offill writes that with each reading, some forgotten facet of the novel comes to light.
«A gli uomini non piacciono le donne troppo intelligenti». Nel romanzo fresco di stampa di Caroline Bernard Il fiore di Parigi (editore tre60), che ricostruisce la vita di Simone de Beauvoir, il primo a far presente questa scomoda verità a una figlia troppo fuori dagli schemi è papà Georges.
“There is vitality only by means of free generosity. Intelligence supposes good will… Sensitivity is nothing else but the presence which is attentive to the world and to itself.”
