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…Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren't. Being willing to make a mistake you got further than never trying. The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it.
Bravery, Joan suspected, is almost always a lie. Courage is all we have.
— Dec 31, 2025 01:40AM
Bravery, Joan suspected, is almost always a lie. Courage is all we have.
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Bilge
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Lydia was entirely right. There were four men on that shuttle. But every American woman was. Joan and Vanessa and Donna and Lydia-and so many people at NASA-were steadying themsehves on the edge of a coin. It could be so easy for it all to go sideways. If it did, the backlash would be swift, and brutal. A wave overtaking all of them, each lost in the riptide.
— Jan 03, 2026 02:52PM
Bilge
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I would go so far as to say that as human beings, we are less of a who and more of a when. We are a moment in time-when all of our cells have come together in this body. But our atoms were many things before, and they will be many things after…
…It is a point of connection with every other living thing, made up of the same kinds of particles, ruled by the same physical laws.
— Jan 01, 2026 02:00PM
…It is a point of connection with every other living thing, made up of the same kinds of particles, ruled by the same physical laws.

