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Book cover for Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free
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 ...more
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Bonnie Tsui
“Swimming has always been a means of escape: physical, spiritual, mental. And if that’s true, then what better place is there for a swim team than a war zone?”
Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

Bonnie Tsui
“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.”
Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

Bonnie Tsui
“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.”
Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

Bonnie Tsui
“Though class lines had been erased at the pool, race lines hardened even further, resulting in riots and racial segregation.”
Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

Bonnie Tsui
“This was a fight not just for the right of access but for the right of recreation, of leisure, no matter what your skin color. Many activists saw pools and beaches as the ultimate symbols of that freedom. In the mingling of bodies, in the act of sharing the same water with others, you can read volumes.”
Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

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