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"We need more women out in the world. To hide them away only creates a demand for them as commodities. We need women in positions of power, in educated jobs, in supportive and leadership roles. That's how we make the world a safer place for our kids."
One of the few times I paid attention in school was during an astronomy lesson. The teacher said every time we looked at stars, we were looking at thousands, maybe even millions of years into the past because light had to travel so far to reach our eyes. Most of those stars had burnt out by now, or collapsed in on themselves to become black holes. I wondered if distant worlds faced rises and falls in their own societies like we had, and if they corrected their ways before their own suns died out. Chaos and collapse wasn’t uniquely human, I was sure. But right now it was peaceful. Tranquil,
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