Sharon

“When Reagan aligned with Jerry Falwell and other evangelicals, Republicans believed they’d be able to contain the fervor of white Christian nationalists. “But they couldn’t keep the dog on the leash, and those folks eventually took over, which is how Trump executed a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.” Because of gerrymandering, Ohio is practically a one-party state now, not unlike southern states during Jim Crow.”
― Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

“America’s slide into fascism was already playing out as the philosopher Richard Rorty envisioned it in 1998: “The gains made in the past forty years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out.”
― Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

“the Encyclopaedia Britannica dared to print the contested hypothesis that the sea cow had indeed become extinct. It is an extraordinary assertion – that man could be to other species as great a threat as an asteroid or a flood –”
― Iida Turpeinen, Beasts of the Sea

“Boundaries can save, yes, but also boundaries suck.”
― Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America