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“Rapes: eighty percent of the women and girls who cross Mexico to get to the U.S. border are raped on the way. The situation is so common that most of them take contraceptive precautions as they begin the journey north.”
― Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

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“And of every occupational category, poets have far and away the highest suicide rates—as much as five times higher than the general population. Something about writing poetry appears either to attract the wounded or to open new wounds—and few have so perfectly embodied that image of the doomed genius as Sylvia Plath.1”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

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“Empathy is not connecting to an experience, it’s connecting to the emotions that underpin an experience.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

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“If you choose courage, you will absolutely know failure, disappointment, setback, even heartbreak. That’s why we call it courage. That’s why it’s so rare.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

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“If we believe empathy is finite, like pizza, and practicing empathy with someone leaves fewer slices for others, then perhaps comparing levels of suffering would be necessary. Luckily, however, empathy is infinite and renewable. The more you give, the more we all have. That means all pain can be met with empathy—there’s no reason to rank and ration.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

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