Status Updates From Parable of the Talents (Ear...

There’s nothing wrong with being stoic when you have to be, but there’s enough unavoidable suffering in the world. Why endure it when you don’t have to?”

GodDAMN that was a tough section. One passage (with a lot of highlights) is my new “Octavia what did you know and when did you know it” moment because IM SCARED

'I’ve heard that in some of the more religious towns, repression of women has become more and more extreme. A woman who expresses her opinions, “nags,” disobeys her husband, or otherwise “tramples her womanhood” and “acts like a man,” might have her head shaved, her forehead branded, her tongue cut out, or, worst case, she might be stoned to death or burned. I’ve only heard about these things.'

Y'all Qaeda