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The 13 Best Books of 2013: The Definitive Annual Reading List of Overall Favorites
The 13 Best Books of 2013: The Definitive Annual Reading List of Overall Favorites

Soul-stirring, brain-expanding reads on intuition, love, grief, attention, education, and the meaning of life.

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Young vs. Old, Male vs. Female, Intuition vs. Intellect: Susan Sontag on How the Stereotypes and Polarities of Culture Imprison Us
Young vs. Old, Male vs. Female, Intuition vs. Intellect: Susan Sontag on How the Stereotypes and Polarities of Culture Imprison Us

“The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.”

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Well-Read Women: Gorgeous Watercolor Portraits of Literature’s Most Beloved Heroines
Well-Read Women: Gorgeous Watercolor Portraits of Literature’s Most Beloved Heroines

Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Clarissa Dalloway, Holly Golightly, Daisy Buchanan, Lolita, and more.

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The Big Feminist BUT: The Caveats of Gender Politics in Comics
The Big Feminist BUT: The Caveats of Gender Politics in Comics

“There’s both liberation and possibility in pointing out that you’re not a sellout or a coward for refusing to adopt a label that doesn’t quite name your experience.”

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Kids on Gender Politics: Amusing and Poignant Responses from Children in the 1970s-1980s
Kids on Gender Politics: Amusing and Poignant Responses from Children in the 1970s-1980s

Minors counter major hegemony with disarming clarity.

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Dustin Hoffman on What It’s Really Like to Be a Woman
Dustin Hoffman on What It’s Really Like to Be a Woman

Show this to every man, woman, and child you know.

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The Psychology of Stress, Orgasm, and Creativity
The Psychology of Stress, Orgasm, and Creativity

“To understand the vagina properly is to realize that it is not only coextensive with the female brain, but is also, essentially, part of the female soul.”

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Pioneering 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Education and Women in Science
Pioneering 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Education and Women in Science

“No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”

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Mme. Curie Is Dead; Martyr to Science: The New York Times’ Stirring Obituary for Marie Curie
Mme. Curie Is Dead; Martyr to Science: The New York Times’ Stirring Obituary for Marie Curie

“Few persons contributed more to the general welfare of mankind and to the advancement of science than the modest, self-effacing woman whom the world knew as Mme. Curie.”

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Survival of the Prettiest: Harvard Cognitive Scientist Nancy Etcoff on the Science of Beauty
Survival of the Prettiest: Harvard Cognitive Scientist Nancy Etcoff on the Science of Beauty

“Attitudes toward beauty are entwined with our deepest conflicts surrounding flesh and spirit.”

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