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"She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow."

“When I went home that evening and realized my education had been a lie—had made presumptions about what was "normal," what was American, what was valuable—I wanted to quit school right then and there, but I didn't. Instead, I got angry, and anger when it is used to act, when it is used nonviolently, has power.”
From the introduction