>
> —Anne Lawrence, _Men Trapped in Men's Bodies_
-(The Hand I Was Dealt)
-> Well this is the one that I had to write, it's like a
-> A letter of love with no love left out
+> _Well this is the one that I had to write, it's like a
+> A letter of love with no love left out_
>
> —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
-(The Hand I Was Dealt?)
-> I'll write my way out
-> Write everything down, far as I can see
-> I'll write my way out
-> Overwhelm them with honesty
-> This is the eye of the hurricane
-> This is the only way I can protect my legacy
->
-> —"Hurricane", _Hamilton_
-
> If you could see
> The other side of me
> I'm just like anybody else, can't you tell
>
> —Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, dedication to _The Woman That Never Evolved_
-> Given that females prefer to live with female relatives if they are going to live in groups at all, and given that the size and dispersion of these groups is determined by the interaction of food availability and predation risk, how should males map themselves onto the female distribution?
->
-> Robin I. M. Dunbar, Primate Social Systems, Ch. 7, "Evolution of Grouping Patterns"
-
> "LMAO", says a member of the Community Team. A colleague approaches him and asks why he is laughing. "I just heard the funniest joke in the world!" "Well, go ahead, tell me!" says the other judge. "I can't–I just gave someone a code of conduct violation for it!"
>
> —old Soviet joke (paraphrased)
> —W. E. B. duBois (http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20%28spring%2001%29/articles/names/dubois.htm)
-> "Any evolutionary advantage must come from a feature affecting our behavior. Thus, there is no evolutionary advantage to simply having a belief about our identity. Self-identity can matter and could have mattered only if it affects behavior, in which case it is really a _process_ of self-identification. Moreover, it is not a matter of affirming a self-identity that we possess. For a belief that needs to be affirmed is not a belief at all."
->
-> Joseph M. Whitmeyer, "How Evolutionary Psychology Can Contribute to Group Process Research", in <em>The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society</em>
-
-
> Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
> Everybody's looking for someone to blame
> Like it's a game, like it's a game
[Dagny talking to Wyatt and being in pain that he thinks she's one of the moochers]
[You must say it, because it is true]
+
+> A similar definition of intelligence was expressed by Aquinas as "the ability to combine and separate"—the ability to see the difference between things that seem similar and to see the similarities betweeen things which seem different.
+>
+> —Arthur R. Jensen, "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?"
+
+> Odeen was selfishly pleased with his own flow and thought it graceful and impressive. He had mention that once to Losten, to whom as his Hard-teacher, he confessed everything, and Losten had said, "But don't you think an Emotional or a Parental feels the same about his own flow-pattern. If each of you think differently and act differently, ought you not to be pleased differently?"
+>
+> —_The Gods Themselves_ by Isaac Asimov
+
+> In desperation he quoted André Gide's remark: "It has all been said before, but you must say it again, since nobody listens." Unfortunately, judging by the quotations given here, Gide's remark is still relevant even today.
+>
+> —_Making Sense of Heritability_
+
+> In some cases, there is a reason for one gender to adopt certain tasks—males have stronger muscles, and females give birth, and thus big game hunting tends to be done by men (who, in most cultures, are typically male).
+>
+> —Cailin O'Connor, "Measuring Conventionality"
+
+> Given that females prefer to live with female relatives if they are going to live in groups at all, and given that the size and dispersion of these groups is determined by the interaction of food availability and predation risk, how should males map themselves onto the female distribution?
+>
+> Robin I. M. Dunbar, Primate Social Systems, Ch. 7, "Evolution of Grouping Patterns"
+
+> If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
+>
+> —Zora Neale Hurston
+
+> STEVEN: Test? What do you mean, test?
+> PEARL: Eugh, well, it wasn't really a "test", per se. Not in the traditional sense. We just wanted to see if you were ready to go on missions.
+> STEVEN: That's _exactly_ what a test is!
+>
+> —_Steven Universe_, "The Test"
+
+> He shrugged apologetically. "The question really has no meaning. _Why_ anything? The laws of physics and the boundary conditions of space-time. What more can I say?"
+>
+> —"Eugene" by Greg Egan
+
+(post for leaving Berkeley)
+> _I don't care about what all the others say
+> Well I guess there are some things that will just never go away, I
+> Wish that I could say that there's no better place than home
+> But home's a place that I have never known_
+>
+> —"On The Run", _Steven Universe_
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