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The Humans
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the one thing worse than having a dog hate you is having a dog love you. Seriously, if there was a needier species in the universe, I have yet to meet it.
“Percent of countries providing universal prenatal care that have lower infant mortality rates than the US: 100%”
― Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
― Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
“but the more people like Wolf and Bannon focus on very real fears of Big Tech—its power to unilaterally remove speech, to abscond with our data, to make digital doubles of us—the more liberals seem to shrug and sneer and treat the whole package of worries like crazy-people stuff. Once an issue is touched by “them,” it seems to become oddly untouchable by almost everyone else.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“Women’s bodies have near-perfect knowledge of childbirth; it’s when their brains get involved that things can go wrong. When we force external rules on laboring women’s behavior, their births may veer off track. The intrinsic intelligence of women’s bodies can be sabotaged when they’re put into clinical settings, surrounded by strangers, and attached to machines that limit their freedom to move.”
― Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
― Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
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