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Our childhood books always ended in children & marriage. Women are taught to not envision life beyond those bounds. & men R taught to enforce those bounds. We grow up in a cultivated darkness & don’t realize we’re blind.

We lack imagination. we struggle to innovate we barely able to adapt we get stuck in our traditions, eating the same books generation after generation thinking along the same rigid lines. creativity is our world. we are not creative. Our childhood books always ended in children & marriage. Women are taught to not envision life beyond those bounds. & men R taught to enforce those bounds. We grow up in ….. next
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Why do you think so few women run away? Why do you think nothing really changes for book eaters century after century?

Act 4 chapter 26
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In order for interstellar, travel to be possible the civilization must consider zero population growth.

Unchecked exponential expansion Inevitably exhaust planets resources, meaning any advanced, spacefaring civilization must achieve zero population growth(ZPG) to survive its technological adolescence.

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"an exponential increase in population will swallow every resource"

Sun warms us and feeds us and permits us to see, it is powerful beyond human experience. Birds greet the sunrise with an audible Ecstasy. Even some one celled organisms know to swim towards the light. Our ancestors worshiped the sun, and they were far from foolish, yet, the sun is an ordinary, even mediocre star. If we must worship a power greater than ourselves, does it not make sense to revere the sun and stars?

I have a terrible need, shall I say the word, a religion, then I go out at night and paint the stars!

Vincent van Gogh

Chap. 9

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be”

Chapter 1

“Politics is for a moment, but an equation is for an eternity.”

Einstein

They will not respect you unless you make them!

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Your voice and your truth will never hold weight unless you learn to hold power. says Uriale.
Medi: But I don’t know how to be powerful I say in a small voice.
Speno juts her chin, looking down her nose at me and in that moment, she looks down like a queen. I’ll tell you this, Power is not given it is taken!

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You are the mortal daughter of two lowly and now disgraced Sea Gods. I’m sure I don’t have to explain to you where you stand in the hierarchy of things.
The words don’t hurt the way might have coming from someone else. I know my sister well enough to know that behind my sister’s words there is love.
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I’m afraid the truth doesn’t matter, Medi, Says Theno.
I warned you that men with power are always first to be believed. you should have listened. In the situation, it isn’t the truth that holds weight. What matters is power and those that yield it. Because they are the ones that get to decide what is true and what is the lie?

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They turned towards him, like sunflowers, turning to the sun.

The impotent humiliation of a beating

Chapter 2

You are the dream my life made…

Wolves teach humility they teach that we are all in this together that we are all a part of the same whole. If something happens to one of them, they all feel it.

“Time to drum,” Rita says, to a place far away. You’re supposed to celebrate a moon, they are powerful. all right then, Let’s get this party started. Cheryl jokes and tosses her smoke out the window. They both laugh, probably too hard. And get their coats to walk off to the bar Arms, interlinked They slip in the snow And laugh with mouths open And too loud because no one cares what old ladies do.

Gary: I think it’s pretty amazing, the nights we will go just to feel something (read a book 400 pages long).

Virginia Wolf
Mrs Dalloway….

If loneliness is a problem….. …..In a way, Mrs Dalloway is a hero, for giving everyone a place to be.

Phoebe began to understand that on some nights, Lila it’s probably the loneliest girl in the world, just like Phoebe. and maybe they are all lonely maybe this is just what it means to be a person to constantly reckon with being a single being in one body maybe everybody sits up at night and creates arguments in their head for why they are the loneliest person in the world.

A naturalist looks for the wonders of nature, listen to the voice of nature and learns to understand it.

As a naturalist, u need 2 have empathy & intuition & love. You have to be prepared to look at a murmuration of starlings. & be filled with awe @ agility of these birds, how do they fly in a flock of several thousand without touching each other? yet they have such formations and swoop & turned together, as one.

That’s why this book is important. It will help people realize. that their actions no matter how small they may seem truly do make a difference. The cumulative effect of thousands of ethical actions. can help to save and improve our world for future generations.

1880 John elk, (Winnebago)left his reservation to live in Omaha Nebraska & tried to register to vote. the Supreme Court ruled against him in elk V. Wilkins (1884). “Any Indian tribes, or any member thereof, have become so far advanced in civilization that they should be let out of a state of pupilage, & admitted to the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship.

Indian citizenship act of 1924

Only natives who left their communities enjoy the majority society were counted as “taxed.“ Making a distinction between wild and civilized that deprived the vast majority of Native Americans of basic citizenship, rights and protections. According to the census of 1870, only 8% of American Indians were classified as taxed, and even that small majority were eventually stripped of their citizenship rights. P305

The civil rights act of 1866 and the 14th amendment in 1868 also failed to bring relief to Native Americans held in bondage. The statues protected and conferred citizenship, rights on “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subjects to the jurisdiction thereof,“ but quite crucially excluded “Indians not taxed.”

California

Indian act of 1850
authorize the arrest of “vagrant” natives who could then be “hired out” to the highest bidder. This act also enabled white persons to go before a justice of the peace to obtain Indian children “For indenture.”
This act may have affected as many as 20,000 Californian Indians, including 4000 children kidnapped from their parents & employed as domestic servants & farm laborers

California

Despite being a “free soil“ state, American settlers were buying and selling Indians as a common practice.

1846, the first American commander of San Francisco said “certain persons have been and still are imprisoning and holding to service Indians against their will.”

He warned the general public, “Indian population must not be regarded in the light of slaves.“

Ironically, One of the reasons Mexico had encouraged Americans to settle into the territory in the 1820s and 30s was because they wanted a buffer against Comanches a sort of insurance policy on their borderland. In that sense the Alamo, Goliad, San Jacinto and the birth of the Texas Republic were a product of a misguided scheme to stop the Comanches.

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By 1836 the Spanish were long gone. The Mexicans that were left had even less success dealing with Comanches who contemptuously referred to them as their stop keepers.

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