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There is very little right/wrong or good/bad in this world. There is, however, useful and not useful. There are also things that are sometimes destructive, as well as things which are engendering. There are actions that are properly
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“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.”
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“I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.”
― Leonardo's Notebooks
― Leonardo's Notebooks
“It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was different for Jaja and me. We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
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