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This is such a beautiful and informative book. The compassionate education is *chefs kiss*. We will all die - might as well learn about it and face it together.

Language scholars have a different perspective on girls and how they talk (vs advice for girls to buck up and talk a specific way to garner more respect). "When we criticize the speech of a disempowered group, we are simply finding a new way to express an established bias. Specifically, the argument that women undermine their power with their speech patterns amounts to back-to-front logic."

This would make an amazing Max mini series. 👀

"I thought you were a godless atheist?"
"I am, but who's to say our universe is alone? Maybe there's others stacked beside us like sheets of paper."

There are so many good lessons in this one - I haven't read it since the firstborn was a year old (lol, I wanted a preview into what was to come). It holds up.

"Avoidance only makes anxiety worse.
Avoidance not only feeds anxiety, it serves up a two-course meal. First, dodging a perceived threat feels good; in fact, Avoidance works as an incredibly powerful and fast-acting drug. Second, sidestepping our fears prevents us from discovering that they're overblown."

Damn.

"Are you telling me to repress me sorrow and anger?" I said, surprised, and she said, "Not repress. Set free."
"I have to think about that," I said.

"He was studying me with his big brown eyes. Eyes, nose, mouth. The children's features shattered me a little bit -- as if someone had siphoned love out of me and tattooed it onto someone else's face."