>
> —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
>
> —_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.
+> 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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