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Never have the gods of all the tribes put upon the seas such monsters as man now sends over them.… Their steel bowels, grinding and rumbling below the splash of the sea, are fed on quarried rock. Their arteries are steel, their nerves
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“I know that many men and even women are afraid and angry when women do speak, because in this barbaric society, when women speak truly they speak subversively—they can’t help it: if you’re underneath, if you’re kept down, you break out, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” — URSULA K. LE GUIN”
― I'm Afraid of Men.
― I'm Afraid of Men.
“It was also shameful: when a shameful thing is done to you, the shamefulness rubs off on you. You feel dirtied.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“a vivid, wonderful world so full of winter and spring, warm rain and cold snow, adventures and contentments, good things and bad. How often you will have me near you when wood smoke drifts across the wind, or the first tulips arrive, or the sky darkens in a summer storm…. Think of me today, and in the days to come, as I am thinking of you this minute, not gone or alone or dead, but part of the earth beneath you, part of the air around you, part of the heart that must not be lonely.”
― An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
― An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
“The curves of callousness and stupidity intersect at their respective maxima.”
― How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
― How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
“Everybody says they want to live in peace; everybody says they don’t want to go to no war. Nobody wants to spend every waking moment looking to be killed or having to kill somebody to keep from getting killed. That’s what you would think. But what humans do is just that. All the time. So no matter how it makes you feel, no matter what folks say about war and killing, we’re all lying to ourselves and everybody else. It’s all one big everlasting lie. When I know this, it don’t feel right even thinking about a thing so far off as happiness. Something way down inside of me feels like it’s dripping and damp and completely evil. I know I am a animal that can talk and there ain’t nothing that will ever save me nor no one else. This is what we are, and until we die, it’s all we are. A savage animal that can talk.”
― Far as the Eye Can See
― Far as the Eye Can See
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