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“Why? So you can still qualify for assistance? Your family is gaming the system?"

"No." Diana had always hated when people said this about her family. The bosses who made her dad list a payroll company as his employer, they gamed the system. The assholes who convinced her parents to take out both a second mortgage and a HELOC in 2006 gamed the system. The employers who would never give Edith enough hours for benefits gamed the system. But ask a lot of people, and they'd tell you it's people like her grandma who game the system. They'd tell you that an old woman who's worked hard every day of her life and still struggles to get by is a malignant vacuum for their personal tax dollars, and a blight on their lives as free Americans. "We're just trying to live.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

“This puts him in an instructive mood, and I can see he is going to teach me something, which gentlemen are fond of doing.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“And then I thought: 'It's for a warning,'" she continues. "You may think a bed is a peaceful thing, sir. For you it may mean rest, and comfort, and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone. There are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed. It's where we are born, that's our first peril in life. It's where women give birth, which is often their last. And it's where the act takes place between men and women sir, which I will not mention to you, but I suppose you know what it is. Some call it love, others despair, merely an indignity they must suffer through. And finally beds are what we sleep in, and where we dream, and often where we die.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“In the shower I stood for a long time thinking about all the days I’d berated my body as fat, for not running fast enough, for being big-shouldered and big-hipped. For eye circles, for pimples, for wide feet and a big nose. For a heart defect. For having symptoms I didn’t want. I understood, finally, that my body was real. It was not some illusion. There was not some other version of it I would ever have. It was me, and I had almost lost it. We had almost been lost.”
― Katherine E. Standefer, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life