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it involves staying grounded in your reality and your own powerful truth while invalidating the lies of a narcissist.
Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare
Shahida Arabi
She set up “delivery stations,” an early version of branch libraries, in outlying areas where immigrants were settling. She moved the library from its crowded rooms in the Downey Block to a much larger space in the new City Hall building. With the additional space, she hoped the library could expand and begin loaning more than books; she pictured a storeroom of tennis racquets, footballs, “indoor games, magic lanterns, and the whole paraphernalia of healthy, wholesome amusement that is . . . out of the reach of the average boy and girl.” She believed a library could be more than a repository of books; she felt it should be “the entertainment and educational center of the city.”
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
Once upon a time, I was on the tenure track as a biologist, which is certainly a journey if you're a woman. I have hidden in dark places in my own lab to pump, dumped milk at an airport because the Iraq War started, and given up academia for my family, something I would do again under the same circumstances. I have gone into labor on Wednesday afternoon while teaching, gone home, given birth, and been back teaching again on the following Monday because as an adjunct, I had no other choice.
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