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“If anyone ever tells you that they have no choice but to compromise, remember this. They are afraid.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant

“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”
― Margaret Sanger

“His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class-consciousness alongside his ambition to transcend his meager beginning, Science would become his religion”
― Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

“To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense of belonging, however partial it may be. Activism can make us vulnerable because it is so obviously about wanting something beyond what is, and to have a political desire often is construed as wanting too much.”
― Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS