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“Academia is so hierarchical, you know? There are all these people who have power over you, who are supposed to guide you and help you become the best possible scientist, but . . . sometimes they don’t know what’s best. Sometimes they don’t care. Sometimes they have their own agenda.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“Anyone can become disabled at any time. We are people just like everyone else.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

“Seharusnya kamu tidak lagi berpikir bahwa perempuan dan laki-laki itu berbeda. Apa yang bisa dilakukan laki-laki, bisa dilakukan perempuan, begitu juga sebaliknya. Hanya satu yang kami tidak bisa, melahirkan dan menyusui.

Om Vincen”
― Dian Purnomo, Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam

“Academic job interviews can be just as exhausting, long winded, and soul crushing as Elsie perceives them to be. The feuds within disciplines, just as petty. The power mentors have over their mentees, just as absolute.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically