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“We need people designing technologies for society to have training and an education on the histories of marginalized people, at a minimum, and we need them working alongside people with rigorous training and preparation from the social sciences and humanities.”
― Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

“The implications of such marginalization are profound. The insights about sexist and racist biases... are important because information organizations, from libraries to schools and universities to governmental agencies, are increasingly reliant on being displaced by a variety of web-based "tools" as if there are no political, social, or economic consequences of doing so.”
― Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

“Maybe all women were shapeshifters, changing instantly depending on who was around.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Nothing was dirty. With Park.
Nothing could be shameful.
Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“I am really not a girl to fall in love with. For one thing, I don’t like temporary, nonprovable things, and romantic love is both temporary and nonprovable.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“The universe stops and waits for us.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“Stars are important," I say, laughing.

"Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“An impossibility is just a possibility you don’t understand yet”
― Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas

“To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid any more.”
― Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas

“Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Having dreams never killed anybody.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn’t conversation. It’ll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, “Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“We're all a broken, in our own ways - In places no one might see.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Women are raising children, picking up socks, and making sure you feel like a man by supporting you when you need it and looking sexy (but not trying too hard, because that would be pathetic). We're being independent and bad bitches while wearing fucking lipstick and heels so as not to offend your delicate aesthetic sensibility, yet even just the word "feminist" pisses you off. How dare we.”
― Jessica Valenti, Sex Object: A Memoir

“An inside hurt was supposed to stay inside. How strange it must be to hurt in an outside way you couldn’t hide.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“She wanted this baby and that was the difference: magic you wanted was a miracle, magic you didn't want was a haunting.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you're having one, it is somehow not obvious to you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“The sandcastle, wet and gleaming under the sun, waited for the only thing that could destroy it: the waves. And like the waves returning the sandcastles to its natural state, quickly and rhythmically, he destroyed my being.”
― Rain Chudori

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“...artificial intelligence will become a major human rights issue in the twenty-first century.”
― Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism