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“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“I remember a television program I once saw; a rerun, made years before. I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It was the sort of thing my mother liked to watch: historical, educational. She tried to explain it to me afterwards, to tell me that the things in it had really happened, but to me it was only a story. I thought someone had made it up. I suppose all children think that, about any history before their own. If it's only a story, it becomes less frightening.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“There's something uniquely valuable in everyone, and we'll be much happier and better off if we invest the time and energy it takes to find it.”
― Aziz Ansari

“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays