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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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a domineering, violent, or bad-tempered woman

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virago



She is the virago who acquired Brad Pitt

Octomom and the Market in Babies (56) by Mark Greif
unknown
7 years, 8 months ago


I pictured viragos fighting over Michel Thomas, never mind that he had the sexual energy of a grandmother with bone density issues.

—p.299 by Rachel Kushner
notable
1 week, 1 day ago


the image of her as cold, inhuman, a virago, a phony

on Hillary Clinton

—p.181 Elect Sister Frigidaire (178) by Katie Roiphe
confirm
7 years, 4 months ago


he met these ... viragos, who wanted servicing

—p.370 by Rachel Kushner
confirm
5 years ago


she turns virago and calls him ugly names

—p.420 FREE WOMEN: 3 (353) by Doris Lessing
notable
1 year ago


“I assume you drink Martell,” the attractive virago with shining white eyes says. I remember this ad.

—p.74 Happy Hour (69) by Rachel Kushner
strange
3 years, 3 months ago

the icy virago in that film, played by Joan Crawford

—p.95 Picture-Book Horses (95) by Rachel Kushner
notable
3 years, 3 months ago