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She knows her birthright. A body that can survive the wilderness while sick and wounded and bearing child. She knows that she can dash brains with a stone. She knows how to take a punch on the chin, or the breast, or the gut. She knows that
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“...we all live our lives with multiple identities intersecting with one another, creating a mix of privileges and challenges that all people carry with us. Race, gender, economic background, religion, immigration status, family acceptance, and so much more create a complex matrix that sometimes erects obstacles but other times ensures support in overcoming barriers put in your way.”
― Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
― Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
― Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
― Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Whatever your sphere is, however big or small, you get to make choices within it, and if you care about healing the wounds of the world I hope you become a real demon bitch about diversity and never let anyone sleep. Think radical thoughts and let yourself imagine they're true. Then ask yourself why it's considered radical to make art that accurately reflects reality, to build a society that takes care of its members, to demand a better world.”
― The Witches Are Coming
― The Witches Are Coming
“So no, excuse me, we will not play likability anymore. It's an endless runner—a game with no progress and no finish line—that women are expected to chase, that keeps us from doing the real work, accruing the real power. Chasing likability has been one of women's biggest setbacks, by design. I don't know that rejecting likability will get us anywhere, but I know that embracing it has gotten us nowhere.”
― The Witches Are Coming
― The Witches Are Coming
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