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A Killing Cold

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“You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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“When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

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“The cynical would say there was only one reason a high-profile specialist finally took up the cause. On June 7, 1925, the first male employee of the United States Radium Corporation died.”
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“Death, once conceived, was rapacious. It took all with it.”
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