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"They are all women, too. In a country that prides itself in being Catholic, kind and compassionate, the worst of the conservative lot are women: they frontline the campaigns against birth control, divorce, gender quality. They don't care about the poorer women, but will claim to speak for them. Here and exactly when we most need it, every other ideology trumps sisterhood."

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I'm flying through this!

so true... "I fear, for example, large flags of the Western world, in almost any context. When I see them hanging off the backs of pickup trucks anywhere in the United States, I have an instinctual negative reaction."

too familiar... "With a strong, decisive man at the helm, you have stability, 1 was told time and again-not this chaos where all norms and values go out the window, and who knows what your kids end up thinking or saying or doing. Years later, I'd hear all this again on a different assignment, interviewing Trump voters."

the occasional tangents confuse me 😅

my week long break starts now 🙏🏼

"the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position or have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say."

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it's reminding me of when the crawdads sing except this is real life

"...and-deep down-will wish what we all wish whenever we leave something: that it's going to collapse. That nothing will work without us. That we're indispensible. But nothing will happen, the rink will remain standing, the club will live on."

"One of the hardest things about getting old is admitting mistakes that it's too late to put right. The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong"

"Trauma is like a season, deep & dependable, a force we board our windows against.
Even when it passes, it will wail its wild way back to our porch."

They could use phrases like "We'll take the best care of you we can," or "We'll be with you whatever comes," and they could even say, "There's still hope." But they couldn't say, You will get better. They couldn't say, You will be cured.

"Even when these explanations are cruel and dehumanizing, we embrace them-because tiger got to sleep, and bird got to land, and man got to tell himself he understand."

i knew it 😅

giving wakanda

"...happiness is never beyond reach. It's not in the distant past, nor on the horizon of the future. It's right in front of me. Like that day's beer, and today's quince tea?...I think life becomes easier knowing that happiness is not that far out of reach?"

"We become more compassionate. To read is to see things from someone else's perspective, and that naturally leads you to stop and look out for other people, rather than chase after success in the rat race. If more people read, I think the world would become a better place."

oh wow niceee

finally we learn what's the manuscript about. also, i keep forgetting it's winter haha

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"But the truth, as I discovered, is that freedom of adulthood is oppressive in a different way. You can do anything, so rebellion has no meaning."

"But when I grew up, I discovered that adults like this game, too, though for a very different reason. They call bribes gifts, for example, and speak of corruption as the cost of doing business. The purpose of renaming actions or concepts in this way is to muddy what is crystal clear, to use ambiguous language in place of a simple word that nobody could misunderstand."

hmm "The most important thing had always been what other people thought - appearances before herself or her family."

"What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this."