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“One Yard Short exposes those “he’s not a winner” arguments for the suckerpunch they are, showing the keen edge that separates champions from also-rans. McNair earned immunity from such taunts that day, proving that he could, even though he didn’t. Thoughtful fans can return to that moment when pondering the legacy of other players, who may have come up five yards short, or twenty, but could still see the end zone, still gave their teams a chance at glory: A loss is not always a failure.”
― A Good Walkthrough Spoiled: The Best of Mike Tanier at Football Outsiders
― A Good Walkthrough Spoiled: The Best of Mike Tanier at Football Outsiders
“The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position.”
― The End of All Things
― The End of All Things
“Nobody asks about Beethoven’s mother’s own life—a fairly miserable round of pregnancy, childbirth, and child death. Was Maria Magdalena Keverich van Beethoven put on earth only to produce her wunderkind? Might she have had gifts of her own that she never got to offer the world?”
― Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
― Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
“So you’re saying that I could die at any moment!” “Yes. And this is different from your life yesterday in what way?” Umegat cocked his head in dry inquiry.”
― The Curse of Chalion
― The Curse of Chalion
“We think we value mothers in America, but we don’t. We may revere motherhood, the hazy abstraction, the cream-of-wheat-with-a-halo ideal, but a mother is just a kind of woman, after all, and women are trouble and not so valuable. Low-income mothers drag down the country—why’d they have kids if they couldn’t support them? Middle-class mothers are boring frumps. Elite ones are obsessed sanctimommies: Don’t they know how annoying they are, with their yoga, their catfights over diapers and breastfeeding, their designer strollers that take up half the sidewalk so that people with important places to go have to take several extra steps?”
― Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
― Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
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