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“What you have to understand is that bureaucracy is an organism, and the prime goal of every organism is self-protection. Bureaucracy exists to protect itself.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

tags: bureaucracy, frankenstein, government, red-tape

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“I was overwhelmed by how much work it took to prove I was poor.”
― Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

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“good people shine brighter in dark times.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

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“[Why don't you identify as a trans man instead of nonbinary?] Because really, I want people to be confused about my gender at all times. I don't want a beard, and I don't want my voice to change. I don't want MORE gendered traits, I want LESS.”
― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

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“My hope was, if everything else in her life was chaos, at least she knew that wherever we called home, there’d be pancakes cut in the same way.”
― Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

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