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‘Acting despite fear — it matters’

‘She reflected on the question of objectivity in war reporting. “When you’re physically uncovering graves in Kosovo, I don’t think there are two sides to the story. To me there is a right and a wrong, a morality” […] For her, context mattered, but the experience of individuals in war was the essence of the story.’

‘Anger was a chokehold. Anger did not empower you. It sat on your chest; it squeezed your ribs until you felt trapped, suffocated, out of options. Anger simmered, then exploded. Anger was constriction, and the consequent rage a desperate attempt to breathe.’

But women did not wear trousers in 1830s and skirts were not ‘racy’ - trousers certainly were though.

So far this book is incredibly bland and robotic

‘It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain that she knew not which prevailed.’