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“We walked back from dinner through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour, before we melted indistinguishably into it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky”
― Ojibwe saying.

“Take care of the people, and god almighty will take care of himself.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:]

It is true that both the woman and the male worker are condemned to silence by their exploitation. But under the current system, the worker's wife is also condemned to silence by her worker-husband. In other words, in addition to the class exploitation common to both of them, women must confront a particular set of relations that exist between them and men, relations of conflict and violence that use physical differences as their pretext.”
― Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle