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“Silence is the first casualty.”
― Something About Living
― Something About Living
“You are a nice person, and you’re also full of anger. You’re a walking tangle of contradictions. That’s okay. Most of us are like that. Women, most of all. How could we not be? People want us to be sexy warriors who roll over and play dead on command. They want us to be flirty burlesque dancers in burkas, aggressive conquistadors with cookies in the oven, Dorothy Parker meets Dorothy Gale, Sandra Bernhard meets Sandra Dee, Kristen Stewart meets Martha Stewart.”
― How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life
― How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life
“Balance” is a luxury. Equality is a necessity. When we stop talking about work-life balance and start talking about discrimination against care and caregiving, we see the world differently.”
― Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
― Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
“If we define "beauty" as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a "gene for beauty." If we define "intelligence" as the performance on only one kind of test, then we will, indeed, find a "gene for intelligence." The genome is only a mirror for the breadth or narrowness of human imagination.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“An olive tree is like an iceberg,
he tells us,
the roots run so deep
what we can see above the ground
is nothing compared to
what lies beneath.”
― Water & Salt
he tells us,
the roots run so deep
what we can see above the ground
is nothing compared to
what lies beneath.”
― Water & Salt
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