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Untrue is a book with a point of view—namely that whatever else we may think of them, women who reject monogamy are brave, and their experiences and possible motivations are instructive. Not only because female infidelity is far from
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“to be ignorant of “either letters or swimming,” Plato declared, was to lack a proper education.”
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
“The original prohibitions at public pools were put in place in fear of this very thing: people of different races, genders, and backgrounds mixing together.”
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
“Black children drown at a rate five times that of white children. And as with so many other things, money also has a heavy hand in the way swimmers are made: in the United States, nearly 80 percent of children in families with a household income of less than fifty thousand dollars have no or low swimming ability.”
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
“As I learn more about the Baghdad swimmers, I start noticing how the water is a privileged space and what an invitation to that space can mean for all kinds of tribes.”
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
“When it comes to swimming, the competition part has always unnerved me. I don’t like it all that much, and I still can’t quite make sense of it, so I admit it’s hard to write about. Thinking about racing makes me feel queasy. Even when I was a kid, contemplating a race would send me to the bathroom more than once during a single meet, my intestines in revolt. Fight or flight! I liked winning, and I liked swimming fast, but I couldn’t figure out how to control all the other stuff that went along with getting your body into the revved-up state required to slay your rivals.”
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
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