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"Chat does this book get better? Is it worth it? I can’t handle the tropes but it seems like so many people I like like this book so I am so confused" — Apr 11, 2026 05:00PM
"Chat does this book get better? Is it worth it? I can’t handle the tropes but it seems like so many people I like like this book so I am so confused" — Apr 11, 2026 05:00PM
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and é doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time
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“The struggle lies between the ears, not in the feet,’ I wrote after the journey to the North Pole. If the body’s able but we can’t convince the head, it isn’t easy to get anywhere.”
― Philosophy for Polar Explorers
― Philosophy for Polar Explorers
“Over time, I came to see bias as a kind of soul violence, an attack not just on the material conditions of one’s life—on one’s choices and possibilities—but an assault on one’s sense of self.”
― The End of Bias: What the New Science of Overcoming Bias Teaches Us About Transforming Our Lives, Our Companies, Our World
― The End of Bias: What the New Science of Overcoming Bias Teaches Us About Transforming Our Lives, Our Companies, Our World
“Feminism cannot indulge the fantasy that interests always converge; that our plans will have no unexpected, undesirable consequences; that politics is a place of comfort.”
― The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
― The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
“Then it came to me, my life. I remembered my life
the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.
& I was free.”
― Time Is a Mother
the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.
& I was free.”
― Time Is a Mother
“The individual who acts with bias engages with an expectation instead of reality. That expectation is assembled from the artifacts of culture: headlines and history books, myths and statistics, encounters real and imagined, and selective interpretations of reality that confirm prior beliefs. Biased individuals do not see a person. They see a person-shaped daydream.”
― The End of Bias: What the New Science of Overcoming Bias Teaches Us About Transforming Our Lives, Our Companies, Our World
― The End of Bias: What the New Science of Overcoming Bias Teaches Us About Transforming Our Lives, Our Companies, Our World
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