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“I have been thinking, then, about the value of optimism while cities burn, while people are fearing for their lives and the lives of their loved ones, while discourse is reduced to laughing through a chorus of anxiety. A woman in a Cape Cod diner the day after Christmas saw me eyeing the news and shaking my head. She told me that “things will get better,” and I wasn’t sure they would, but I nodded and said, “They surely can’t get any worse,” which is the lie that we all tell, the one that we want to believe, even as there are jaws opening before us.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“It is jarring, what we let fear do to each other; how we invent enemies and then make them so small that we are fine with wishing them dead. How we decide what “safety” is, how ours is only ours and must be gained at all costs. How we take that long coat of fear and throw it around the shoulders of anyone who doesn’t look like us, or prays to another God.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“I have thought about their remarks, tried to put myself in their place, considered their point of view. I think they are full of shit. - Nora Ephron”
― Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
― Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
“We didn't create society for men, we created it to stop men.”
― Girls & Boys
― Girls & Boys
“Leonardo’s relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
― Leonardo da Vinci
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