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“Camilla, we did it right, didn't we?" Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasn't speaking to anyone else in the universe. "We had something very nearly perfect... the perfect friendship, the perfect love. I cannot imagine reaching the end of this life and having any regrets, so long as I had been allowed to experience being your adept.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“We might also examine the patriarchal and white-supremacist anchors of heterosexual desire in the United States, where Asian American women and white men are consistently ranked “most desirable” in surveys, with the former valued for beauty and docility and the latter for power.”
― The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
― The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
“straight culture seems to rely on a blind acceptance that women and men do not need to hold the other gender in high esteem as much as they need to need each other and to learn how to compromise and suppress their disappointment in the service of this need.”
― The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
― The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
“Many straight women spend dozens of hours planning each detail of their weddings or baby showers or baby gender-reveal parties, while straight men keep their distance from the very rituals that are intended to mark important moments in their lives. In no way do I intend to imply that couples should spend every minute together, but if we held straight couples to basic standards of good friendship—mutual respect and affection and a sense of comfort and bondedness based on shared experience—many straight relationships would fail the test.”
― The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
― The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
“Your biggest fear ought to be wasting your life and time, not "Am I going to have x number of dollars when I'm 80?”
― Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
― Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
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