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Ethel was staring at the ceiling. "Well, I'm concerned about global warming and the creeping authoritarianism with right-wing nationalism, sure, but at the same time I don't know if I'll have next month's rent."
"Sounds about right."

Oh, I feel you, Ethel. smh.

She said she felt she diminished the victims, "turning them from elite engineering students who'd fought for a place among men into teddy-bear-loving daughters, sisters, and girlfriends." -p153

The article finished with, "They weren't killed for being daughters or girlfriends, but because they were capable women in a male-dominated field. I should have written that then," -p155

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"I'll give you Candy. But it was like all these funny women were working undercover. They were winking to all the women in the audience, always letting them in on the joke while the clueless men just laughed."
"That's the history of the world right there," I said.

I really enjoy Gord and Ethel's conversations.

"There's always a pushback," Ethel said. Her expression was serious in a way I hadn't seen before. "To sny movement. No one wins anything on the first try. Every wave of feminism got pushed back hard, that's why there are so many waves, you have to just keep coming, again and again.

When I picked up a crime mystery fiction for a quick read, I didn't expect to highlight this many quotes, but I'm loving it so far.

"I didn't really want to open the link, but I did. It was a newspaper article and the actual headline was "Man Who Ran Canada's Only Shelter Dedicated to male Victims of Domestic Abuse Dies in Apparent Suicie." I hoped Kevin Mercer hadn't gotten off a bus after a three-day trip and Goodgle shelters and seen this article."

I've been warned about the dry humor, but I've been liking it more than I like to admit it.