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“The government want to criminalize all abortion and disallow in vitro fertilization because it produced wasted seed...My two companions were outraged at the misogyny, incensed by their government's unjust treatment of women. It sounds like the Poland I write about of the 1930s and 40s was more feminist than now. In some ways, it was.”
― The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
― The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
“Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.
'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.
'There's a library?'
'Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.”
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'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.
'There's a library?'
'Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.”
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“You need your own strength in this life. Your own purpose. You can't simply live for others.”
― Star Wars: Princess Leia
― Star Wars: Princess Leia
“She quoted the Reverend James Forbes as saying, “Nobody gets into heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.”
― Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
― Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
“How do you ruin a people? Is it with fire? Is it with bullets? You can drag a man through the street tied to the back of a horse. You can incinerate a village. Can line families up in rows against a brick wall and fell them, one by one, like a forest. But all it takes is one survivor, and the story lives on. One survivor to carry the poems and the songs, the prayers, the sorrows. It isn’t just taking a life that destroys a people. It’s taking their history.”
― Thistlefoot
― Thistlefoot
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