Katie Beers
@KatieBeers86Writer of YA things, Obsessive Reader of All Things. In the words of Louisa May Alcott: She is too fond of books, & it has addled her brain.
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I remember first reading Joan Didion in high school. She made me want to go to California, be a journalist, read all her books. At 15, she just made writing seem like the coolest thing there was. #RIPJoanDidion
For half a century, Joan Didion, who died on Thursday, was the grand diagnostician of American disorder in essays of strong, unmistakable cadence. She wrote her first story at age 5, after her mother told her to stop whining and to write down her thoughts.nyti.ms/32xz0C4
Jane Austen’s works are timeless classics because she knew the real horrors in life are having to listen to men who think they’re better than you and receiving unannounced visitors.
Finishing the first rough draft of a new story always makes me weepy. It can be such a grueling time and yet a part of me never wants it to end--the intensity and fervor of it; the absolute devotion required to bring it into being...I lovelovelove it all. #amwriting #writerslife
In awe. What courage. What a powerful voice. What a speech. 👏👏
Paxton Smith is the valedictorian of Lake Highlands High School's class of 2021. She submitted her commencement speech for approval, then tossed it aside. She had something else to say about the new state law that bans abortions as early as six weeks. dmagazine.com/frontburner/20…
Every time someone’s says ‘two households’ in relation to corona restrictions I immediately internally reply ‘both alike in dignity’. Please say I’m not alone.
Everything in me just feels better when I'm writing. #amwriting
And 147 mass shootings in 2021 so far.
Police shootings are intertwined with gun violence. There were only 18 days in 2020 that the police didn't kill somebody, according to Mapping Police Violence. In the first 106 days of 2021, police have already killed at least 268 people. insider.com/days-in-2020-t…
"A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." -from Madeleine L'Engle's Newberry Medal Speech for one of my favorites, A Wrinkle in Time #amreading
To paraphrase, "We went to the ocean because we wished to live deliberately." And anyway, spring is basically the same as summer, right??
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." --Albert Camus #amreading #FridayMotivation
Week of 11/29 in Capricorn: There is writing and also speaking, but most of all sitting and thinking. In these moments there will appear the bird. After a bit of waiting, it is now all going to happen quickly. Your romantic heart is ready, always.
a) every woman doesn't look like this b) FAMOUS MALE INTELLECTUALS GET STATUES OF THEM SO WE SEE THEM AND REMEMBER THEM c) being hot and naked so regularly defines women that to deliberately play INTO it does nothing but reinforce tired old tropes.
According to Hamlin, the sculptor, (this morning on Today) it's not a statue OF but a statue TO her. The figure represents every woman and she is naked because clothes define people
Call me "overly practical", but showing famous British intellectual women wearing nice coats seems far more representative of "every woman."
We see a lot of debate about the #Wollstonecraft statue ... Our #VirginiaWoolf #statue, still in fundraising, can be seen below in progress. What are your thoughts?
If you want to make a naked statue that represents "every woman", in tribute to Wollstonecraft, make it eg: a naked statue of Wollstonecraft dying, at 38, in childbirth, as so many women did back then - ending her revolutionary work. THAT would make me think, and cry.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." npr.org/2020/09/18/100…
A collision in #space revealed a #blackhole that physicists thought could never exist. The observatory that detected it cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by #Einstein. businessinsider.in/science/news/a…
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