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“Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift.”
― Noam Chomsky

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“Have you noticed that when men want freedom, the conversation is about the nature of action, violence or non-violence? But when women want freedom, the conversation is about the nature of women, natural or unnatural?”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

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“Cats are not adoring like dogs. They don’t care. They can never be relied upon to shore up a human ego. They go their way, do their thing, are not subservient and will never apologise. No one has ever come across a cat apologising and if a cat did, it would patently be obvious it was not being sincere.”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

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“Could love, like pain, migrate to a different part of the body?”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

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“It matters what you call a thing.”
― Solmaz Sharif, Look: Poems

tags: naming, poetry

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