We must remember that astrology was the one highly developed science among the magi and mystics of the Oriental lands, and that out of this science grew the present-day science of astronomy. It may be inappropriate, but I cannot fail to
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“Years later, on Instagram, I’d read a meme that read, “Why were we taught to fear the witches instead of the men who burned them?” And who were witches, anyway, but women with knowledge, skills, and names?”
― A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
― A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
“If you tell Google that you would like to see images of ‘Black men’ the images that come up are all portrait photos of black men. Indeed, it takes more than a dozen rows of images before anybody who isn’t black comes up in the images. By contrast a search for ‘White men’ first throws up an image of David Beckham – who is white – but then the second is of a black model. From there every line of five images has either one or two black men in the line-up. Many of the images of white men are of people convicted of crimes with taglines such as ‘Beware of the average white man’ and ‘White men are bad’.”
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
“After all, in the sporting world, being discovered to have taken testosterone is ordinarily grounds to prevent someone from competing – unless, it turns out, the person is taking testosterone to transition to the opposite sex. In which case sensitivity overrides science.”
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
“... I hadn't understood that people you loved could do things you didn't love. And, still, you could keep loving them.”
― Mary Jane
― Mary Jane
“That’s People-Pleasing 101,” she said. “If you’re only saying yes so they’ll like you then you’re abandoning yourself and operating from a place of shame and extremely low self-worth.”
― A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
― A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
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