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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy. (p34)

— Rebecca Solnit Men Explain Things to Me (2014)

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A coalition is by definition made up of people who have something in common, not everything in common.

I think of voting as a chess move, not a valentine.

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A labyrinth is a symbolic journey … but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

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