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Kurt was wearing green Converse One Star sneakers in the suicide photos, so I bought green Converse One Stars—and so did my friend Lauren. And then so did my friend Samara!
“Imbalance in the sciences is at least partly because women face a web of pressures throughout their lives, which men often don’t face.”
― Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
― Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
“What is love, Poori?” Savitha said. “What is love if not a hunger?”
― Girls Burn Brighter
― Girls Burn Brighter
“Life is change. If you aren’t growing and evolving you’re standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead “still” lives, waiting.’ ‘Waiting for what?’ ‘Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them or at least protect them from the big, bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs and so is the solution. Only they can get out of it.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
“Study after study has shown almost all behavioral and psychological differences between the sexes to be small or nonexistent. Cambridge University psychologist Melissa Hines and others have repeatedly demonstrated that boys and girls have little, if any, noticeable gaps between them when it comes to fine motor skills, spatial visualization, mathematics ability, and verbal fluency.”
― Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
― Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
“Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history.”
― Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It
― Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It
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