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Marianne
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“When we are surrounded by such diversity - in nature, in culture, in human spirit - how can we stand not to acknowledge it?”
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“Living in patriarchy means that the default inclination is to center men and their voices, not women and their work.”
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
― When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
“Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.”
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“People do blame you for the things they do to you.”
― Parable of the Talents
― Parable of the Talents
“Some critics of trans people have told us that we shouldn’t feel this pain of being denied the legitimacy of our own selves; gender is, of course, just a social construct. I wonder if these people also tell widows not to bother grieving their husbands, because marriage is also just another social construct.”
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