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“I was very grateful that abortions were legal when my need for one came along in 1978, but to be perfectly honest, I'm sure I would have found an illegal way to terminate this pregnancy if it had come to that, since as far as I was concerned, it was my only responsible option.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“As I write these words, multiple genocides are in progress. I feel no certainty for the future. Half my nation is so in thrall to its own bigoted fantasies that I neither expect or particularly want the United States to survive. I do not fear the Singularity, sentient AI, or any technological boogeyman; I fear the confluence of greed and short-sightedness and spite that human rights and human consciences cannot survive intact.”
― N.K. Jemisin, Authority

“Take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matter how you kiss 'em, as far as I'm concern frogs is what they stay.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“There's no way to prepare for what somehow felt so sudden. He was here. Then he wasn't. He never would be again. And there was nothing I could do about it.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir