Rage did become me while reading this book.

"We are so busy teaching girls to be likeable that we often forget to teach them, as we do boys, that they should be respected." 

Henry the VIII is a big baby.

Men are exhausting. 

3.75 A little repetitive and needed more representation.

"Since thousands of years of history have judged all women by the badly behaved Eve, we might also deduce that all men are bumbling idiots, too stupid to question a terrible idea."

"Why do we so often still give appalling men a pass with "boys will be boys" and "it's only locker room talk" while we demonize, belittle, shame, ridicule, vilify, slander, and silence women?"

"In between Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh who came to power in 1479 BCE, and Kamala Harris, countless other powerful women have been subjected to almost identical sexist takedowns."

"They (refugees) are doctors and teachers. Lawyers, journalists, poets, and priests. And children, so many children. People forget that you were an activist, a student, that you were a father named Ziauddin, a daughter named Malala. The displaced who make up these staggering numbers are human beings with hopes for a better future."

Oof. That hurt.

"The historical record is CLEAR. European colonists shoved aside a large network of small and large nations whose GOVERNMENTS, COMMERCE, ARTS, and SCIENCES, AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGIES, THEOLOGIES, PHILOSOPHIES, and INSTITUTIONS were intricately developed nations that maintained sophisticated relations with one another and with the environments that SUPPORTED them."

"Land-poor white rural people saw (Andrew) Jackson as the man who would SAVE them, making land available to them by RIDDING it of Indians, thereby setting the pattern of the DANCE between poor and rich US Americans ever since, under the GUISE of equality of OPPURTUNITY." 

"The future will not be mad with LOSS and WASTE though the memory will be there: EYES WILL BECOME KIND AND DEEP, AND THE BONES OF THIS NATIONWILL MEND AFTER THE REVOLUTION."

 "Reading is a practice that saves my life every day."