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To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where
“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”
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“It is hard to understand why the senators were so perplexed, given that behavior like this had been an open secret in Washington for as long as Washington existed.”
― The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
― The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
“What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
“Contrary to popular belief, female spies throughout history have traded not on their sexuality, but on their perceived insignificance.”
― The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
― The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
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