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Our government—as opposed to our elected officials—has no talent for telling its own story. On top of every federal agency sit political operatives whose job is not to reveal and explain the good work happening beneath them but to prevent ...more
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Kahlil Gibran
“And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself.”
Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

Nicholas D. Kristof
“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.”
Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Najwa Zebian
“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
Najwa Zebian

Lucretius
“The atoms in it must be used over and over again; thus the death of one thing becomes necessary for the birth of another.”
Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things

C.J. Hauser
“I need you to know: I hated that I needed more than this from him. There is nothing more humiliating to me than my own desires. Nothing that makes me hate myself more than being burdensome and less than self-sufficient. I did not want to feel like the kind of nagging woman who might exist in a sit-com.”
C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

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