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Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

by Robert Chapman

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Women, Race & Class

by Angela Y. Davis

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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

by Kristen R. Ghodsee (Goodreads Author)

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Maya’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today – A Memorial Sloan Kettering MD's History of Healthcare and Agency

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today – A Memorial Sloan Kettering MD's History of Healthcare and Agency by Elizabeth Comen

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Today we find a similar entanglement of health status with wealth status, of medical wisdom with pseudoscientific quackery and fad dieting, and of a struggle for control over women’s lives that begins with controlling their appetites.

Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)

by Suzanne Collins

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Maya’s Quotes

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: perspective

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“once I lived daily among people who suffered injustice and came to understand how much injustice is an all-pervading system, I realized that only grassroots people who have nothing to gain from this present system can conceive of a different one.”
― Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century

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“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor, science

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“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science, sense-of-wonder, spirituality

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