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“Women are no more important than any other potential victims, but we are the primary targets of the messages and myths that sustain rape culture. We’re the ones asked to change our behavior, limit our movements, and take full responsibility for the prevention of sexual violence in society.”
― Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It
― Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It
“And it’s the act of our observing the cat that kills it—or lets it live. And then it gets mind-fuckingly weird. Because those kinds of observations happen all the time. So if the world really splits whenever something is observed, that means there’s an unimaginably massive, infinite number of universes—a multiverse—where everything that can happen will happen.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“Real estate (then, now, and probably forevermore) was a prime source of speculative frenzy. Taylor wrote that “a friend of mine, who wished to find a place for a law practice, was shown a cellar in the earth about twelve feet square and six deep, which he could have for $250 a month.”
― A Short History of San Francisco
― A Short History of San Francisco
“Differences of expectations lead to conflicts. {Conflict = Expectation A - Expectation B}”
― Quantraz
― Quantraz
“Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called violence against women and girls the “most shameful human rights violation”3 and the World Health Organization called it a “global health problem of epidemic proportions.”
― No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
― No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
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