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Kill Your Darlings

by Peter Swanson (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 29, 2025 06:27AM

“More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century.

The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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“I can influence others, but I'm not responsible for others.”
― Brittany Burgunder

tags: actions-speak-louder-than-words, helping-others, influence, life-lessons, ownership, responsibility, responsible, self-awareness, self-realization, truth

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“In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

tags: gender-equality, morality, slavery, women

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