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The Dovekeepers

by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 13, 2025 09:04AM

“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: danger, righteousness, war

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“It takes a long time to turn into what you're supposed to be.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

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“He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

tags: fathers, fathers-and-daughters, fix, scientists

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“Public and private organizations all over the world have studied the mechanics of sexism within science and have concluded that they are complex and multifactorial. In my own small experience, sexism has been something very simple: the cumulative weight of constantly being told that you can’t possibly be what you are.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

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“He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have to go home. And one day he would have to make a home to go back to. He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: home

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