“what thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty, thoughtful poor people call with equal justice a problem of riches.”
― Inequality: What Can Be Done?
― Inequality: What Can Be Done?
“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
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“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
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“if the wealthiest fraction of a society feel that they can afford to insulate themselves from the common fate and buy their way out of the common institutions, that is also a form of social isolation.”
― Inequality: What Can Be Done?
― Inequality: What Can Be Done?
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