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.....which consisted of a desk he built out of plywood from the Rona....
This just sounds weird, no one says this, it's just from Rona, not "the Rona".

A body is not a thing. So it can't be new or used or second-hand.

It suggests that feminism is something that either is or is not okay to consume, rather than a lens through which creators and audiences see stories, characters, and communication.

We are so schooled, he said, in the doctrine of self-acceptance that the idea of refusing to accept yourself becomes quite radical.

People were like that though. Basically good until they thought they could get away with shit without being caught.

It seems now, when it’s all over, as though the man had come, or some strange agency had sent him, to unplug me from my safe, guaranteed existence.

Chapter 20

To really appreciate and enjoy motherhood a woman must be loved.....The pain, effort and work of motherhood is rendered beautiful through her lover.

Hunger and poverty are not strangers to her; the only people who bemoan hunger and poverty are those who never experience it.

No lawn signs in an election campaign? It's like Trudeau without the rose, Diefenbaker without jowls, or the Leafs winning the Stanly Cup. It's unnatural.

Some people contend that the English language is a living, breathing organism wherein the definitions of words and rules should change to reflect their mass misuse. I contend that English is already an extraordinarily difficult language to teach............society should step up and grant the language the respect and reverence it deserves.

The refrigerator was one of those side-by-side units, which initially left me flummoxed. When you've spent the first thirty-two years of your life with the freezer on top and the fridge on the bottom, switching all of a sudden to the left/right configuration required some acclimation.

Built in 1952, it had an utterly forgettable but, I suppose, practical architecture of that era - early Canadian ugly.

Rachel, my Rachel, was on her knees in front of the Opposition House Leader. Let's just say she was rather enthusiastically lobbying his caucus.

She'd had plastic surgery to add the extra little crease in her eyelids to make herself look more Caucasian. It was the ultimate South Korean experience. Mrs. Song had arrived.

By 2001 Chinese goods poured into North Korea, DVDs stamped out by Chinese pirating factories were small and cheap. Big sellers were Titanic, Con Air, and Witness.

North Koreans have multiple words for prison in much the same way the Inuit do for snow.

Establishing juchemeans, in a nutshell, being the master of revolution and reconstruction in one's own country. This means holding fast to an independent position, rejecting dependence on others, using one's own brains, believing in one's own strength, displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.
- Kim Il-sung

An interesting quote especially as I'm also reading Stranger in their Own Land.

In the futuristic dystopia imagined in 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world were the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea.

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