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“I’m sure you know this, but power dynamics rooted in social status are a system designed to separate people instead of bringing them together for the greater good.”
“I was a sailor, Miss Hines. I have very little virtue left, and you’re welcome to it.”
“I don’t hate America.” She resumed her position, arms raised. “If I hated it, that would be admitting they’d broken me. We can both clearly see that I’m not broken.”
The election needed to be over, and fast.
I bet on that man. I thought he was the best choice of the pickings that night. I thought he was gonna do right by me. And I was wrong. That didn’t mean I didn’t go back to work the next night. That didn’t mean I never got fooled again. When you’re trying to survive, sometimes you’re gonna encounter liars. Politicians are the worst of them. But there are good ones too. You take your chances there like anywhere else in life because the only other option is giving up. That make sense?”
Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.
