Other people saying things
"Incidentally, 'sex and marriage, divorce and homosexuality' are hardly the major areas where Pope Francis has emphasized tensions between church teaching and Western norms."
"These young women may not have the academic credentials and institutional support of the professional ethics guild, but they respect the vital importance of consent, they’re wicked smart, and they have the advantage of not working backwards."
"If kale is compulsory, even in magazine features, then the trend must be past its apogee."
"From now on I'm going to refer to every right winger who is mad about abortion rights or marriage equality or high taxes the 'blame America first crowd' because they have earned that title as honestly as any lefty who complains about America's foreign policy or criminal justice inequities."
"Despite our negative views of gentrification, what many of us experience is a more subtle, nuanced version of gentrification, in which not every change is bad and there aren’t any obvious heroes or villains."
"The implicit idea here is that our professional and financial growth depends on our spiritual merit, not on the presence or absence of social structures and biases."
“You remember when you said the birds scattered like skipped stones across the inverted pond of heaven? Yeah…that was…that was awesome.”
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"Never again experience the unsettling feeling of flesh on flesh when closing your hand."
"Besides, you’re wrong. I don’t take this shit back to the farm; I take it to the food bank and sleep the sleep of the just."
"Never mind what a fox is doing in the hallways of a mid-level consulting firm — why is the only word in the entire English language it can speak your name?"
