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We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly
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“People don't know to make a leaf, but they know how to destroy one.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Public and private organizations all over the world have studied the mechanics of sexism within science and have concluded that they are complex and multifactorial. In my own small experience, sexism has been something very simple: the cumulative weight of constantly being told that you can’t possibly be what you are.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“America says it loves science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“In my case, the monsters recede but never vanish. They are long dead and being born as I write.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
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