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FindCenter Quotes ImageI am passionate about everything in my life—first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that’s a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I’m a woman, but because it’s such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.

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