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“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

“A guy in this late teens, who was walking behind us and observed to his friend loudly enough for us to hear, "You know, if men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would outnumber Starbucks.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Lord only knows how many of us they keep from running. How many of us stay in these hateful places out of love. I used to think it was from scaring us - beating, cutting, or whipping us that did it. No, they get us best when we love anybody or anything. That's how they keep us.”
― Amina Luqman-Dawson, Freewater

“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