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They do not want happiness: they want to live.

I did not want to hear the voices of people who had consented to the death of millions of Jews and resistance members; I did not want to find their name in any publication side by side with my own. We had said: 'We shall not forget'; I was not forgetting that.

Good lord Faderman, tone down the whiteness a bit, would you?

TERFs are TERFs, Faderman.

Do you men have no courage except the physical courage that can confront death? Are you incapable of the moral courage that can accept unhappiness?

I'm learning a lot by reading this, but talking about Stonewall without mentioning Marsha P. Johnson is pathetic.

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Happy International Women’s Day!

This book has four introductions: three authorial ones for different editions released within Dupin's lifetime, and one biographical one written for today's reader. Kind of impressive.

In her mind the concept of communism wasn't that impressive; contemporary values held that everyone deserved to have enough food anyway, and things like education should meet individual needs. Implementation, of course, was another matter.

Ah jeez, a reference to 'The Story of the Stone'. Even my other reading is telling me to get a move on with the last two volumes.

The [words inserted by Franklin] were: 'Thus our general ideas are consistent with the model proposed by Crick and Watson.' So indeed they should have been consistent, considering that the Watson-Crick model was in large part derived from her work.

Julie felt terribly exposed, as if she were a net of flesh sailing in the sky to catch every single shard of shrapnel.

It was still too soon to be frightened.

Without the threat of punishment there is no joy in flight.

While we cannot give justice, Sophia, it is idle to debate whether or no we have given charity.

This is a gloriously rich and surprisingly holistic read so far; I hope it keeps up.

This is called the "land of the free, and home of the brave;" it is called the "Asylum of the oppressed;" and some have been foolish enough to call it the "Cradle of Liberty." If it is the "cradle of liberty," they have rocked the child to death.

Her curiosity went beyond speculation, a thing not of the brain but in the blood. It burned in her like a furnace, with a steadfast compulsive heat that must presently catch Minna in its draught, hale her in, and devour her.

The misfortune of our sex is, that young women are not regarded as the material from which old women must be made. ("The Memoirs of an American Lady", Mrs. Grant, Appendix F, p. 197)

Women have taken possession of so many provinces for which men had pronounced them unfit, that, though these still declare there are some inaccessible to them, it is difficult to say just where they must stop.

Only the world was against it. But since her visit to the lime-kiln Sophia was against the world.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.

I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

Thus far, this is much more of a 'The Lowland' than a 'The Namesake', so I hope that keeps up.

I have a feeling I'm going to discover that, before there was Rachel Carson, there was Mary Hunter Austin.

He hurt for Missy Dale, of course he did. But Missy Dale had folks looking out for her. The world was looking out for Missy Dale.

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