Most of all, she distrusted the state. She was allergic to abstract discussions about equality or about the role of institutions in promoting justice. Asking yourself whether something ought to be this way or that way was the wrong place to start. You should never wonder what the state could do for you, she thought, only what you could do to reduce your reliance on the state. She suspected that all the discussions around affirmative action and women’s quotas were distractions that gave more power of scrutiny to bureaucratic institutions, and more opportunities for parasitic individuals to be
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