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Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#members #more #now #sisters #than

Canada was built on dead beavers. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#built #canada #dead

I waged war against my feelings. ↗

— John James Audubon

#feelings #i #waged #war

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#dealing #here #live #people #planet

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#despotic #law #morals #relaxed #versa

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#criticism #distinguished #justification #must #only

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#feel #given #going #i #people

Gardening is not a rational act. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#act #rational

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#call #cover #dragons #enough #ethical

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hating #loving #neighbors #our #ourselves