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“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.”
― George Carlin

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?”
― Margaret Atwood, Power Politics: Poems

“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“But what does the “greatest good” mean when it comes to medicine? Is it the number of lives saved? Years of life saved? Best “quality” years of life saved? Or something else?”
― Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

“Emergencies are crucibles that contain and reveal the daily, slower-burning problems of medicine and beyond—our vulnerabilities; our trouble grappling with uncertainty, how we die, how we prioritize and divide what is most precious and vital and limited; even our biases and blindnesses.”
― Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

“Concepts of triage and medical rationing are a barometer of how those in power in a society value human life.”
― Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

“Sexism is all the big and little ways that society draws a box around women and says, 'You stay in there.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“In my experience, the balancing act women in politics have to master is challenging at every level, but it gets worse the higher you rise. If we’re too tough, we’re unlikable. If we’re too soft, we’re not cut out for the big leagues. If we work too hard, we’re neglecting our families. If we put family first, we’re not serious about the work. If we have a career but no children, there’s something wrong with us, and vice versa. If we want to compete for a higher office, we’re too ambitious. Can’t we just be happy with what we have? Can’t we leave the higher rungs on the ladder for men? Think how often you’ve heard these words used about women who lead: angry, strident, feisty, difficult, irritable, bossy, brassy, emotional, abrasive, high-maintenance, ambitious (a word that I think of as neutral, even admirable, but clearly isn’t for a lot of people).”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“The Puritan witch hunts may be long over, but something fanatical about unruly women still lurks in our national subconscious.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“I’m not sure how to solve all this. My gender is my gender. My voice is my voice. To quote Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet, under FDR, “The accusation that I’m a woman is incontrovertible.” Other women will run for President, and they will be women, and they will have women’s voices. Maybe that will be less unusual by then.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“women are seen favorably when they advocate for others, but unfavorably when they advocate for themselves.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Picking the midpoint between two sides, no matter how extreme one of them is, isn't balanced. It's false equivalence.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“But the more rural the American, the more dependent he is for his way of life on the U.S. government. And the more rural the American, the more likely he was to have voted for Donald Trump. So you might think that Trump, when he took office, would do everything he could to strengthen and grow the little box marked “Rural Development.” That’s not what has happened.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale