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#steppingup — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #steppingup, aggregated by home.social.

  1. A quotation from Candice Bergen

    I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

    Candice Bergen (b. 1946) American actress
    Knock Wood, “Starting Over” (1984)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bergen-candice/4764/

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  2. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

       Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest and then I will murmur agreement, not actually say anything. I am not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard ...
       But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Guards, Guards (1989)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/7722…

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