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Never regret anything, because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. Marilyn Monroe

"What we long for in romantic love is to be unique, indispensable, and irreplaceable to at least one person."

It is an ancient library of books (written over a span of 2,000 years by different authors, in different times and places, with different theologies and conceptions of God) that repeat myths, legends, and stories that occur in a “world” that does not exist.

The government gives billions of dollars to religion, but not much of it appears to go to minority religious groups or explicitly Atheist organizations.

Don't let a bad manager derail your ambition, career values, or goals.

if a government program that aids religion is to be constitutional, the religious recipients of the aid must be part of a formally neutral class of recipients, i.e., a class defined without respect to religion. This means that the government may not administer a program that provides money or other types of aid only to religious entities.

Christian majorities often do not react well when Atheists and minority religious groups demand their rightful place in American public life.

the religious majority gets bent out of shape when faced with a secular speech

Many people feel alienated from society, isolated, lonely, disconnected and in need of a community they can call their own.

Satanism is an open-source religion — that is, its philosophy and values are freely shared and can be used as the foundation for many different personal interpretations.

Founded by Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jarry in 2013, The Satanic Temple (abbreviated as "TST") represents an evolution in modern Satanic thought.

The dialectical fetishization of “Islam and the West”—not just “Islam” and “the West” but “Islam and the West” as a unit—survived the work of Said and his followers and continued undetected as the single most potent falsifying binary of our time.

“Islam and the West” is a very recent historical construct, born of a particular colonial project.

With the outbreak of COVID-19, Islamophobia has exposed its deeper xenophobic roots.

So bottom line long-term cortisol spikes make us older fatter and more depressed than we should be. If you are constantly in a state of panic overworked and frazzled you're probably making too much cortisol.

My mother works. She always has. And while her career never took away from her capacity to love me and showed me the wonderful ways that a woman must contribute and benefit from her work, her work also taught me, though she never said it out loud, that being a woman in business sucks. Don’t try to tell me differently.

hunger means my insatiable need to be more, more perfect and more true, and my insatiable need to exist and feel alive and to hide and feel numb, and the crying child I feel somewhere deep inside, crying for warmth and never satisfied, never safe. If I could pick one word to define me that would be it: Hungry. If I could pick two it would be: Hungry, Always.

Love is a universal emotion that is felt equally between partners. Obsession is a self-serving form of mania.

Our attitudes about money are more important than the amount we make.

This book reminds me of when my mother spent her last days in the hospital.

Like my mother had sent my siblings and I to religious schools, Somali parents often relocated to new places so that their children can attend Islamic classes. Like how I studied Latin, Catechism, and prayed, Somali children study Qur’an, learn how to read, write, and speak Arabic, and pray.

In trying to teach us not to be rude, our parents programmed us to be the architects of our own expression. The lessons that we are taught as little girls are the exact lessons that oppress us when we grow up.

A 2018 study by First News found that the majority of children between nine and fourteen felt that they were treated differently because of their gender. One 10 year old even commented that she had been told at school that she needed to be more "ladylike."

"Gender neutral parenting is becoming more fashionable these days, but if you were born more than ten years ago and your parents weren't super-advanced gender scholars, the chances are you had a gendered childhood.

"My name is Anna and I am twenty-six and anorexic. I have not always been; I used to want things and do things. Now I am not sure how much of me still exists." (234)