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Dallyce
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This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another. This has happened before, after all. People die. Old orders pass. New societies are born. When we say “the world has ended,” it’s usually a lie,
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“I only hoped that everything would be all right, though I would never be overwhelmed with satisfaction if that’s how it turned out.”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
“No, it’s about that whole little world back there. The atmosphere. The strange thing is she misses the possibility it held, the possibility of people destroying other people if they wanted to. She would rather operate in that world than in the world to which she now belongs, the world where violence is buried in layers of hierarchy and consumerism, where the potential of using it belongs almost exclusively to powerful men.”
― Hard Copy
― Hard Copy
“Meanwhile, the people around me carried on serenely, their foreheads smooth and unworried, in a milieu where habit had long since opened the correct paths, where facts were reasonably explained by visible causes and the most extraordinary were connected, not through mysticism but through self-serving complacency, to God. The only events that could disturb their souls were birth, marriage, death and their attendant conditions.”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
“Individual patriarchs may indeed wriggle off the charge of woman-hating; the key to the gross inflictions laid on women in their names lies in the nature of the system itself. For a monotheism is not merely a religion—it is a relation of power. Any “One God” idea has a built-in notion of primacy and supremacy; that One God is god above all others and his adherents are supreme over all nonbelievers.”
― Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World
― Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World
“Every office worker is just a little puppet, and when the puppet breaks or gets mangled in the machinery gears, well, that’s no problem at all for the office system. The office is really just a machine like me, its staff easily replaceable components. People tend to overestimate their own value and importance, but I understand that this is crucial for the employee’s psychological motivation. Only if they feel this way will they show up for work, day in, day out.”
― Hard Copy
― Hard Copy
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