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“The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.”

Ifs Way Mean Used Quiet Safe You Choose Betray Keeping Quiet

Author:Robyn

“The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.”

Ifs Way Mean Ideas Stories Used Quiet Safe Jokes My Friends Boring Fascinating Sense Of Humor Betray Keeping Quiet

Author:Robyn

“We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.”

Thinking Quiet Safe Neighborhood Disappointed

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“"Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.”

Men Way Humans Kind Reality Able Space White Class Knowing Groups Share Middle Quiet Safe Members Safety Deeper Access Middle Class Privileged Marginalized Safe Space

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.”

Thinking Knows Eye Night Voice Dark Darkness Sun Happened Heard Tree Sky Cry Quiet Safe Lows Bird Clouds Burning Remembered Breasts Rays Nests Faded Grove Hurrying Murmuring

Book:Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

Source: Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949

“1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.”

“Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.”

Found Changed Quiet Safe Limits Gold Seasons Grateful Streams Touched Waterfalls Seasons Change

Book:Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War

Source: Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War

“There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.”

People World Easy Quiet Safe Size Oneself Conviction Legs Fats Display Platforms Skirts Approved Slender Thrice Short Skirts Fat Women

Book:Americanah

Source: Americanah