Why is it that when a woman is assertive in the workplace she’s always seen as a bitch?’ ‘Huge question.’ ‘I’ll tell you. It’s because we expect men to torture and kill people, but when women do it it’s seen as violating gender stereotypes.
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― The Common Good
― The Common Good
“And perhaps the only way to grant any justice—were that even possible—is by hearing and recording those stories over and over again so that they come back, always, to haunt and shame us. Because being aware of what is happening in our era and choosing to do nothing about it has become unacceptable. Because we cannot allow ourselves to go on normalizing horror and violence. Because we can all be held accountable if something happens under our noses and we don’t dare even look.”
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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