Unity

“Life,” my father said, “is what we have the most in common with every other creature. We all want to live and we become scared when living is threatened. All of us just want to survive and be comfortable, be happy.”
― Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe

“I also understand how easy it is to be pulled into a web of lies. How a simple recipe for purpose and belonging can also be used to brew something poisonous and deadly.”
― Saara El-Arifi, The Ending Fire

“It wasn’t until human beings stopped moving that women with sexual independence started gaining a bad rap, because once owning land became desirable, people wanted to be able to pass it down to their children, and in order for men to know who their children were, female monogamy became a must. To create a system of inheritance, societies became patriarchal, and any remaining notions of goddess-like sexual liberation went kaput.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

“a language is a dialect with an army and a navy,”
― Laura Spinney, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global