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“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“The ways of God are not the ways of man, and they are most emphatically not the ways of woman.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Whenever someone casually refers to “the history of civilization” in a way that does not jibe with the history of civilization as I extensively, constantly, read about it, I like to research their favorite books to see where they are getting their information. In most of these cases all their favorite books have titles like Christmas, Guns, and Integrity.”
― Jennifer Wright, Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

“It is telling that, historically, quarantines extended primarily to those who had less wealth, power, and social clout.”
― Jennifer Wright, Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them