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As a self-described overachieving perfectionist, I gave my fucks liberally all throughout my childhood and adolescence.
“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Anna and the French Kiss
― Anna and the French Kiss
“How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.”
― The Cuckoo's Calling
― The Cuckoo's Calling
“More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century.
The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.”
― Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.”
― Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.”
― The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
― The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
“Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.”
― The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
― The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
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