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“But happy is harder than it sounds,”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“It’s perfectly possible to be smarter than everyone else and still be polite and even deferential—women have been doing it for centuries.”
― Jennifer Wright, Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

“Even here, in the dark, God is busy making all things new. So show up. Open every door.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“The takeaway from this story is that there is really only one thing we should collectively fear ending civilizations. It's not licentious behavior. If the biggest problem in your civilization is people having sex, you are doing great. It isn't even necessarily other countries attacking you because they hate you and all that you stand for. If you've got a big enough army you can fight them off. The real terror is plague. It's waiting out there, somewhere, under the ice or in a jungle. If it strikes and it can't be combatted effectively, it can take down an empire.”
― Jennifer Wright