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"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
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"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."

"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."

"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."

"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."

"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."

"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."
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"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."

"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
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