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That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed.
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“no one can make you feel bad about yourself without your permission.”
― The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses
― The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses
“The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.”
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“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes
“in the crimson darkness, stewing warm on their cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew and grew or, poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Invalidating a woman’s life choices by saying things like, “Oh, but you’ll regret it if you don’t have kids,” or, “I didn’t think I wanted kids either until I had one,” is like me going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and telling the newly sober that eventually when they grow old, they’ll want to take the edge off with a little gin and tonic and that if they could only just be mature enough to control themselves, they could go on a fun wine-tasting tour in the Napa Valley.”
― I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
― I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
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