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Why do prisons tend to make people think that their own rights and liberties are more secure than they would be if prisons did not exist?
“Once again, it was as if when every other girl was born, a nurse had handed their parents a handbook with instructions on how to be a girl, but the day I was born, the copy machine at the hospital was broken and the nurse had just looked at me and told my parents, Well, she’ll just have to figure it out. I’m sure she’ll be fine.”
― Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
― Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
“Almost every system we exist in is cruel, and it is our job to hold ourselves accountable to a moral center separate from the arbitrary ganglion of laws that, so often, get things wrong. This is the work we inherit as creatures with a complex brain, which comes with inexplicable joys, like love and sex and making out in cars, but also the duty of empathy, of understanding what it means when someone is stumbling.”
― How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
― How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
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“I could pretend I was a princess whose life went from chaos to crisis without looking down between chaoses to find, to her relief, that her dress wasn’t torn. •”
― The Princess Diarist
― The Princess Diarist
“In that sense, there’s freedom in being “average” looking—I never had any illusions that I would need to rely on my looks for anything. But we’re all just at the mercy of the patriarchy, right? When I say that I’m completely average looking, by what metric am I even judging that? A metric that, for millennia, has been determined by men, internalized by women, and spat back out in the form of color-blocked leggings and matching sports bras.”
― Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
― Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
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