"Change happens when people actively participate; lip service is what happens when people don't."

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“No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.”
“And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.”

Source : Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.51, Penguin
“Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.”
“Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.”
“Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.”
“Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.”
“What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth of intellect and balance of wisdom, Smith resets the frame of reflection for the most important discussions of the twenty-first century.”
“I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.”

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