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"In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred, and all duty violated."

"Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove any thing."

"She was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the misery of such happiness, instantly."

"'No I did not promise. I only smirked and bowed, and said the word 'happy.' There was no promise.'"

"Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy, could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting from Camden Place to Westgate Buildings. It was almost enough to spread purification and perfume all the way."

"like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent of a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

"Anne longed for the power of representing to them all what they were about, and of pointing out some of the evils they were exposing themselves to."

"But I hate to hear you talking so, like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days."

"There will be nothing singular in his case; and it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering."

"In the twentieth century, federal, state and local officials did not resist majority opinion with regard to race. Instead, they endorsed and reinforced it, actively and aggressively."

"Just like Supreme Court justices, we as a nation have avoided contemplating remedies because we've indulged in the comfortable delusion that our segregation has not resulted primarily from state action and so, we conclude, there is not much we are required to do about it. Because once entrenched, segregation is difficult to reverse, the easiest course is to ignore it."

"The 2012 edition has this to say about residential segregation in the North: 'African Americans found themselves forced into segregated neighborhoods'. That's it. One passive voice sentence. No suggestion of who might have done the forcing or how it was implemented."

Interracial political alliances become more difficult to organize when whites develop overly intolerant judgments of the unfortunate - from a need to justify their own acceptance of segregation that so obviously conflicts with both their civic ideals and their religious ones."

"Racial polarization stemming from our separateness has corrupted our politics, permitting leaders who ignore the interests of white working-class voters to mobilize them with racial appeals. Whites may support political candidates who pander to their sense of racial entitlement while advocating policies that perpetuate the inferior economic opportunities that some whites may face."

"We have greater political and social conflict because we must add unfamiliarity with fellow citizens of different racial background to the challenges we confront in resolving legitimate disagreements about public issues."

"It's going to happen because we spoke the truth and we were believed and that is no silver lining, my friend, that's the moral of the story."

"not as symptoms as aggressors, but symptoms as communication, not underworld as evil but underworld as transformer, not change as a radical overthrow but change as love"

"the underworld is only depicted as the journey down, it is really the journey in. The feminine is the center of health, the interior and it belongs in the middle. The masculine, in all of us, is meant to protect and defend that bright, vital core."

"....No one took women's concerns seriously when that huge shift occurred and no support was given in the beginning from the government, from men to pick up the slack at home."

"mom was slowly but surely replaced by Ronald McDonald, a clown and look what happened. Our health collapse is directly tied to women moving into the workplace and it's certainly not because women working is a bad thing, it's because no one listened to women. ....

"....That is already happened and if we don't correct it we are doomed. Women's work is not a pejorative, and it is arguably the most important work in the world, for which, low these thousands of years, women should have been paid, recognized, respected, protected."

"But cooking and food cannot become the enemy. It doesn't mean that women have to carry the load to keep everyone healthy by ourselves, but keeping everyone healthy cannot become the enemy. Women's work cannot be the enemy. ....

"and this creates a vicious cycle, when we demonize the feminine in women we demonize it in men too causing tremendous imbalance for everyone. Then women end up demonizing the masculine in men as well because we're pissed and can at least wield the power of emasculation. Then men demonize both the feminine and the masculine in women, even more, because they're pissed and they can at least wield the power of power."

"There is no disease that predominately affects men that we have collectively decided is psychosomatic. there is not disease that predominately affects men whose research isn't considered an indulgence."

"someone had met me, torch in hand and offered to walk alongside me on the path out of hell. Said another way, it was the first time in a long time a physician had actually done his job."

"I was skinny, what other measure of health is there, to my teenage mind and to almost everyone's mind at the time, thinness was the only metric that mattered."

"television and social media can actually be quite stressful and cortisonal producing, that data is in. The point is not to demonize t.v. or social media, it's just to say that in a very real hormonal way, it can't be a complete substitute for nature, meditation, and or making things with your hands."

"And now we need to learn to be just as serious and just as resourceful when it comes to chronic problems and the soft areas of diet, sleep, movement and non-toxic environment and a well nourished psyche."

“‘Justice delayed is justice denied’ was the frequent experience of African Americans having to fight legal battles to obtain housing in white neighborhoods.”

"our current ways of eating and being in the world have become normal only in the last few decades and they aren't working. They are making us sick, fat, depressed, lonely and ashamed and no jolly ranger, no donut hole and no Dorito is worth all that."