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Figuring
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We spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. We snatch our freeze-frame of life from the simultaneity of existence by holding on to illusions of permanence, congruence, and linearity; of static
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“Once a poem is made available to the public, the right of interpretation belongs to the reader,”
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“charged and dangerous situations. As girls, we are not taught to acknowledge or manage our anger so much as fear, ignore, hide, and transform it.”
― Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
― Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
“Medals are small things in the light of the stars,” she would later write. “There’s only one thing in the world of any real importance, and that is goodness.”
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“Where does it live, that place of permission that lets a person chart a new terrain of possibility, that makes her dare to believe she can be something other than what her culture tells her she is, and then become what she believes she can? How does something emerge from nothing?”
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― Figuring
“great empires often fell because of internal contradictions, not external enemies; due to the misguided policies of their rulers rather than the arms of any invader.”
― The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History
― The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History
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