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“Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.”

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Meda Chesney-Lind

Meda Chesney-Lind is a prominent scholar in the field of Hawaiian cultural and social studies. Born in 1947, she is known for her in-depth research on the indigenous Hawaiian culture. more

“There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The public reaction to girls and women who engage in nontraditional behavior - the hysteria that often surrounds girls in these groups - is almost as interesting as the behavior itself.”

Girl Interesting Attention One Thing Groups Behavior Reactions Pay Attention Surround Gang Hysteria

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“The law in the United States, in every jurisdiction until about 1876, was that if a factory put smoke into the air, even one day a year, and it got onto a neighbor's property, the neighbor had the right to enjoin to close down the factory, and the courts had no choice but to do that.”

Ifs Years States Law Choices United United States Air One Day Court Property Neighbor Smoke Factories Jurisdiction

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.”

Democracy Land Goods Assets Public Trust

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.”