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Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Pérez

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Notre-Dame de Paris

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“It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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“A second chance? I thought. A second chance is what criminals get. I knew I wasn’t a criminal; I did what I had to do to survive and save my family.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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“We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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“when you have more words to describe the world, you increase your ability to think complex thoughts.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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“I was beginning to realize that all the food in the world, and all the running shoes, could not make me happy. The material things were worthless. I had lost my family. I wasn’t loved, I wasn’t free, and I wasn’t safe. I was alive, but everything that made life worth living was gone.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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