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the unconditional love of a mother… probably this chapter was the most painful to read

…a condition of never being correct, because being is incorrect. Virtue lies only in the interminable act of erasing yourself. (p. 107)

…self-love is an instinct, as animal as any other function of the self. The ferocity of my affection could not be erased, only suppressed under total vigilance. (p. 111)

However painful, we often cherish our own self-hatreds, mistake them as intrinsic to our survival. (p. 123)

“‘Slut’ serves as an all-purpose insult for any female outsider. All social distinctions that make a teenage girl ‘other’ are collapsed into a sexual distinction.” (p. 44)

Femininity as witchcraft, supernatural, other, ostracized: 妖人。

“class solidarity between workers, across ethnic lines, was the primary…threat to the Nazi project.” (294)

“anti-Semitic to say we cannot [have] the right to discriminate. Colonialism framed as reparations for genocide.” (301)

“Engaging with the…Zionism that created the state of Israel in 1948 means accepting that a people…can be victim and victimizer at the same time.” (305)

“The supremacist mindset…casts the extinguishments of entire peoples…not merely as an unavoidable element…but also as a salutary stage in the evolution of the human species.” (268)

“The refusal to see where the Nazis fit inside the arc of colonial genocides have…come at a high cost.” (274)

“The fear…it will happen to them stems from an implicit admission that they did it to others.” (276)

“This stage of neoliberal capitalism…has done a fine job of transforming identity-based oppression from a basis of solidarity and shared analysis (the original intention of identity politics) to its own form of currency.” (253)

“Denial is so much easier than looking inward, or backward, or forward; so much easier than change.” (266)

“We are now reaping the rotted harvest of decades of deliberately sown mistrust—mistrust of the very idea that we are members of communities and societies, mistrust of any expectation that governments can and should do anything positive for us…We were not, and never were, self-made. We are made, and unmade, by each other…Expressions of solidarity bore no resemblance to [capitalist] neglect.” (233)

“There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education…is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes "the practice of freedom," the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” (34)

“Instead of figuring out how to have a world where everyone can thrive, they want their kids to thrive in a world that is falling apart.” (219)

“The most successful influencers in the wellness and fitness worlds…are a perfect fit with far-right economic libertarians and anarcho-capitalists, who also fetishize the individual as the only relevant social actor. In neither worldview is there any mention of collective solutions or structural changes that would make a healthy life possible for all.” (180)