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The Frequency of Aliens (Sorrow Falls, #2)

by Gene Doucette (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 18, 2019 11:16AM

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“Better to be a monkey and not be able to understand what’s been taken from you, than to be a man and be able to understand all too well—and be helpless to stop it.”
― John Scalzi, Fuzzy Nation

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“You can be anything you want to be—just be good at it. Put your mind to it, learn what you need to, and go for it!”11”
― Maureen Murdock, The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness

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“To protect patrilineal descent, men have for centuries tried to control women's sexuality. Although man needs woman, he tries to keep her power under control, legislating against women's free use of her sex in case she compromises the fragile but tenacious social structure of our patriarchal society.”
― Maureen Murdock, The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness

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“Hera thinks of the maternal line: Gaia, Rhea and now Hera. The goddess who created the world, the goddess who nurtured it and the goddess who will protect it. But stronger than that line is its dark twin: Ouranos, Cronus and Zeus, who only care for what they can take.”
― Jennifer Saint, Hera

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“from an estimate of the global population in the year 2000, which is anticipated to rise to the 10,000 million mark, I suggest that we should be thinking in terms of an ideal regional state at something around ten million, or between five and fifteen million, to give greater flexibility. This would furnish the U.N. with an assembly of equals of 1000 regional representatives: a body that would be justified in claiming to be truly representative of the world’s population.”
― Christopher W. Alexander, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

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