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I’m just super clear about what I want to do with my voice, and because I have more courage and conviction around it.

— Samira Wiley

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The activism projects I’ve been involved with concern me and many of the women I know in my family and workplace

I have a voice. People are looking at you, and you have to choose what you’re going to use that for. It’s kind of not an option to not use it

These men [on The Handmaid’s Tale] have given women a false sense of superiority over each other and have put a divide between these women so they don’t even understand the power they have by supporting one another.

It’s so interesting how fiction can teach you about your own reality. It’s so clear to me in that show how they pit women against each other

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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