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The other scary beauty of life, which I probably should have expected to discover in all of this, was how heightened circumstances, such as overlapping tragedy and success, sharpen your vision and shorten your patience for baloney and hogwash.

-- Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person, p. 236

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A [Blue Mountain Clinic] staff member tells me that one of the female picketers has come in when the men were not around, had an abortion, and gone back to picket the next day.  This sounds surrealistic to me -- but not to the staff member.  She explains that women in such anti-abortion groups are more likely to be deprived of birth control and so to need an abortion.  They then feel guilty -- and picket even more.  This restriction on birth control may also explain why studies have long shown that Catholic women in general are more likely to have an abortion than are their Protestant counterparts.

-- Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road, p. 190

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I cannot express how important it is to believe that taking one tiny -- and possibly very uncomfortable -- step at a time can ultimately add up to a great distance.

-- Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person, p. 236

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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything -- when the world itself grows.

-- Kate McKinnon

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Thanks to Mrs. Greene -- and many others brave enough to stand up for themselves and other women -- I began to understand that females were an out-group, too.  That realization solved such mysteries as why the face of Congress was male but the face of welfare was female; why homemakers were called women who "don't work," though they worked longer, harder, and for less pay than any other class of worker; why women did 70 percent of the productive labor in the world, paid and unpaid, yet owned only 1 percent of the property; why masculinity meant leading and femininity meant following in the odd dance of daily life.

-- Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road, p. 45

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The scary beauty of life is that cancer can be around the corner just as a Grammy nomination can be.

-- Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person, p. 235

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When has a true milestone sailed by without people's hateful attention?

-- Kate McKinnon

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If Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer and others had been heard fifty years ago -- if women had been half the speakers in 1963 -- we might have heard that the civil rights movement was partly a protest against the ritualistic rape and terrorizing of black women by white men ... We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself -- or will use military violence against another country -- is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it's violence against females.  It normalizes all other violence.

-- Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road, p. 43

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I've always tried to be aware of an opportunity to change something I might later regret.

-- Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person, p. 233

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You white women, Mrs. Greene said kindly, as if reading my mind, if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

-- Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road, p. 42

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Whenever I'm told to go after "low-hanging fruit," I think of drawing a cartoon with two characters standing over a tombstone.

"He picked the low-hanging fruit," one says.

"Yeah," says the other.  "But he never climbed the tree."

-- Austin Kleon, "Low-hanging fruit"

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Having spent most of that year in and out of the hospital, fearful that I was close to my deathbed, I naturally came across people who were close to dying themselves.  Who cares that it's cliche, this was their one common regret: They wished they had worked less and spent more time with their loved ones.  I pride myself on living with no regrets, and I certainly don't want any in my final moments.

-- Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person, p. 233