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“In teaching her about oppression, be careful not to turn the oppressed into saints. Saintliness is not a prerequisite for dignity. People who are unkind and dishonest are still human, and still deserve dignity.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The key to all of your behaviors is hidden in a box that you can’t open using normal tools, your subconscious needs a different recipe than the one you’ve been using.”
― Gerard Armond Powell

“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“On an intellectual level, I understood that for most of human history, sex was something to be sought. It was a lure, a prize, and a trophy.  For some it was a compulsion, and for far too many, it was an impossible dream.”
― K. M. O'Connor, Fear and Loathing in the Kuiper Belt: Gen X Science Fiction