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“It's so easy, to split girls into sexy or nerdy, smart or pretty. One or the other. Us versus them. 'There are two kinds of women, those who do xyz, or those who do abc.' But that's not true. There are billions of types of women, infinite possible combinations, and people change over time. Why do we want to regulate ourselves into a tidy little box? Limit ourselves?”

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Book:Kissing Galileo
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