"Say you're a sex worker and your partner knows you're a sex worker, but you're not out to your family. That could be very dangerous, particularly in an unhealthy relationship, where it could be a recipe for conflict, for something potentially violent that could lead to someone going to jail. There's so much pressure because of the criminalization and stigma. If we lifted that, it's only going to benefit more women."

-- Melissa Gira Grant

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“Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .”
“Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.”
“Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.”
“In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am.”
“You don't treat cancer - you fight it.”
“Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.”
“The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.”
“He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.”

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