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“A little girl shouldn’t have to worry about her entire family,’ Grandpa says to me one afternoon….

‘What?’ I ask, not because I didn’t hear what he said, but because I’m confused. Of course a little girl should worry about her entire family. That’s what little girls do.

“I just...” He steps closer to me. “I just think... you deserve to be a kid.”

My eyes well with tears, and not from me forcing them to. This is a natural welling. I can’t remember the last time I cried naturally. I’m taken off guard. I shuffle my feet.”
― Jeannette McCurdy

“What the link between abortion and crime does say is this: when the government gives a woman the opportunity to make her own decision about abortion, she generally does a good job of figuring out if she is in a position to raise the baby well.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

“No matter how good you are at something, or how you rank your accomplishments, there is someone out there who makes you look incompetent.”
― Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

“[Ba Ba] asked fewer and fewer questions in America. Somehow, by leaving China, Ba Ba had grown more Chinese, starting to adopt our government's silly ideas about how asking questions was bad and disrespectful.”
― Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country