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One of [the] things about the “love professions,” which includes academia, it is really easy to forget that you are a worker. But when people remember that they are workers, they can make life better for themselves. - Miya Tokumitsu, interviewed by Kelly J. Baker in Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia

Accepting death doesn’t mean that you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like “Why do people die?” and “Why is this happening to me?” Death isn’t happening to you. Death is happening to us all. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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The great achievements of humanity were born out of the deadlines imposed by death. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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We must be brave enough to look at our own academic systems, if we plan to make them just and equitable. - Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia

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The concept of the body as canvas becomes more powerful if the canvas is dead. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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We are all just future corpses. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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Encountering a corpse forced the man who would be Buddha to see life as a process of unpredictable and constant change. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory

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Life just ran more smoothly when she got her way. Leigh Bardugo, KING OF SCARS

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What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard stone of rage that all lonely girls possess? - Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS 💬📚

Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS

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