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“Can't get eager pilots...if they're afraid of their partners...every battle."
"You don't think girls are afraid?"
"Girls...know how to sacrifice.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“I am more than just what I do; I am a person, and I am alive, and that is purpose enough.”
― Julie Leong, The Teller of Small Fortunes

“A 2016 Slate piece called “Trump’s Tower of Babble” cited an analysis concluding that our forty-fifth president’s “loosely woven sentences and cramped, simplistic vocabulary” placed his speech below a sixth-grade reading level (more than four reading levels behind his opponents’ talking styles). A different study found that 78 percent of Trump’s vocabulary was made up of monosyllabic words, and that his most frequently used lexical items included (in the following order) I, Trump, very, China, and money.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

“Girl talk,” suggests that when women converse with one another it’s inherently featherbrained and precious. Not to mention the implication that women all talk to each other in private the same way. When Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor run into each other in the bathroom between hearings, do their sink-side exchanges also count as “girl talk?”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language