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Worldly Girls: A Memoir (Essais Series)

by Tamara Jong

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Nov 13, 2025 04:41PM

“Have you ever wondered how therapists can listen to people's problems all day long without getting completely overwhelmed? The same principle applies: Pay rapt attention to another person over time and the quiet energy of love and compassion will rise up.”
― Christopher K Germer, L'Autocompassion: Une méthode pour se libérer des pensées et des émotions qui nous font du mal

tags: compassion, mindfulness, therapy

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“The best way to eliminate a group is to demonize them, such that their disappearance is seen as an act of justice, not discrimination.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

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“Leaving, arriving, returning - those are all just different words for the same thing: starting all over again.”
― Wayde Compton, The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration

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“There is a video of the attack too because this is the future. The unspeakable will be televised.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

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“A world that is less racist, less Islamophobic, and less ableist will be less queerphobic and vice versa. Hatred and intolerance are nothing but the fear of people who are different from you. By combating one type of hatred, you combat all types of hatred.”
― Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

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