"One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally."

-- Marge Piercy

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“Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.”
“When I started to play consistently and produce consistently, that's when I knew that I could compete and do well in the big leagues.”
“I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.”
“An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.”
“There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.”
“It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.”

Source : Solomon Northup (2008). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.206, Applewood Books
“I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.”
“Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.”

Source : Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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