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1972, the British biologist Steven Rose declared that PKU demonstrated how pointless it was to talk about something like a “high I.Q.” gene. A variant of the PAH gene could lead to low intelligence test scores if a child was left untreated. ...more
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Sue Monk Kidd
“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.”
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.”
Tina Fey, Bossypants

Jane Austen
“At ten, she was moreover noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house. At fifteen, appearances were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls; her complexion improved, her features were softened by plumpness and colour, her eyes gained more animation, and her figure more consequence. Her love of dirt gave away to inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart. To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever imagine.”
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.”
Tina Fey, Bossypants

Barbara Kingsolver
“There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.”
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

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