"Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people."

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Source : Kameron Hurley (2016). “The Geek Feminist Revolution”, p.263, Macmillan

Kameron Hurley

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Sea Quotes

“I have yet to do a job where I would really get to rock the great clothes. Id love to do a job where I could wear Thom Browne.”

Source : "Dean Winters Is Pretty Stylish for an Insurance Salesman". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2011.
“I think laughter may be a form of courage As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly structure." "They suddenly become less chaotic?" I said, wishing that would happen at HiTek. "No, that's the thing. They become more and more chaotic until they reach some sort of chaotic critical mass. When that happens, they spontaneously reorganize themselves at a higher equilibrium level. It's called self-organized criticality.”
“If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.”
“I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.”

Source : “Action Heroine” by Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. June 10, 2009.
“The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.”
“In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.”
“The opportunity is in the problem. The moment I see a problem, I immediately begin to think about the opportunities that can be created by trying to solve it.”

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