No matter how routine an operation is, the patients never seem to be.
“Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.”
― On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing
― On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing
“No matter what our intentions, everything we say and do in the pursuit of justice will one day be outdated, ineffective, and yes, probably wrong. That is the way progress works. What we do now is important and helpful so long as what we do now is what is needed now.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
“I believe unconditionally in the right of people with uteruses to decide what grows inside of their body and feeds on their blood and endangers their life and reroutes their future. There are no ‘good’ abortions and ‘bad’ abortions, there are only pregnant people who want them and pregnant people who don’t, pregnant people who have access and support and pregnant people who face institutional roadblocks and lies.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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