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  • #1
    Margaret Atwood
    “Nobody has any authority on the fucks that other people give.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

  • #2
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #3
    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    Marvin Bell

  • #4
    Jonathan Maberry
    “I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.”
    Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero

  • #6
    Tommy Orange
    “This is the thing: If you have the option to not think about or even consider history, whether you learned it right or not, or whether it even deserves consideration, that’s how you know you’re on board the ship that serves hors d’oeuvres and fluffs your pillows, while others are out at sea, swimming or drowning, or clinging to little inflatable rafts that they have to take turns keeping inflated, people short of breath, who’ve never even heard of the words hors d’oeuvres or fluff. Then someone from up on the yacht says, "It's too bad those people down there are lazy, and not as smart and able as we are up here, we who have built these strong, large, stylish boats ourselves, we who float the seven seas like kings." And then someone else on board says something like, "But your father gave you this yacht, and these are his servants who brought the hors d'oeuvres." At which point that person gets tossed overboard by a group of hired thugs who'd been hired by the father who owned the yacht, hired for the express purpose of removing any and all agitators on the yacht to keep them from making unnecessary waves, or even referencing the father or the yacht itself. Meanwhile, the man thrown overboard begs for his life, and the people on the small inflatable rafts can't get to him soon enough, or they don't even try, and the yacht's speed and weight cause an undertow. Then in whispers, while the agitator gets sucked under the yacht, private agreements are made, precautions are measured out, and everyone quietly agrees to keep on quietly agreeing to the implied rule of law and to not think about what just happened. Soon, the father, who put these things in place, is only spoken of in the form of lore, stories told to children at night, under the stars, at which point there are suddenly several fathers, noble, wise forefathers. And the boat sails on unfettered.”
    Tommy Orange, There There

  • #7
    Gemma Hartley
    “While women have spent the past few decades being encouraged to reach for the masculine ideal of success, being told they can become anything their hearts desire in the professional realm, they have not been relieved of any of the emotional labor that waits for them when they return home.”
    Gemma Hartley, Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

  • #8
    Caitlin Doughty
    “A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.”
    Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

  • #9
    Theodore Sturgeon
    “90% of everything is crap.”
    Theodore Sturgeon

  • #10
    Theodore Sturgeon
    “Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.”
    Theodore Sturgeon

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    Alice Feeney
    “Words are only of value if we remember how to feel what they mean.”
    Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

  • #14
    Margaret Atwood
    “was ahead of her time with the garlic, I feel compelled to mention:”
    Margaret Atwood, My Evil Mother



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