From Chapter 2:

"While finding loopholes and manipulating my own narrative has helped me survive a lot, those devices never helped me transcend the limits of the value systems in which I lived. I could never have found room for all of me in a definition of feminism that prescribed what shoes I should wear, nor found empowerment in a job defined by my servitude."

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Quotes from the 1st chapter:

"The truth of such trauma's commonness demands social change, and a society resistant to such change will always deny, discredit, and punish the victims (or advocates of victims) who speak out."

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"Those who benefit from the inequities of our society resist the stories of people whose suffering is in large part owed to the structure of our society. They do not want to have to change."

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Quotes from the 1st chapter:

"The articulation of painful memories including the literature and art that arises out of political upheaval, is integral to the formation, preservation, and integration of collective memory."

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"Knee-jerk bias backed by flimsy logic and pseudoscience has always been a preferred disguise of our national prejudices." - p9

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