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“But this is the patriarchy: facts are irrelevant; it's the world order that matters.”
― Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
― Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
“Parents don’t need to know how to play with kids. If we get kids involved in adult activities, that’s play for kids.” And then they associate chores with a fun, positive activity. They associate it with playing.”
― Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
― Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
“Evolution demands that all species solve the equation of converting energy from the world around them into the next generation. Living things, from bacteria to blue whales, solve this equation in different and often ingenious ways based on their biology, environmental pressures, the care required for offspring to reach maturity, and even social structure. For example, some organisms reproduce asexually, some deposit unfertilized eggs that will hopefully get fertilized, and some have very long gestations, like an elephant, which carries its calf -- which will ultimately weigh approximately 110kg (243kg) at birth -- for twenty two months.”
― Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
― Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
“Every single one except, of course, the old little green pig, who was now the little pink pig, upon whom the strange rain had washed right off because of the unpaintoverable paint the farmers had covered him in earlier.”
― The Pillowman
― The Pillowman
“The primary function for writing as a means of communication is to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings”
― Tristes Tropiques
― Tristes Tropiques
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