Two Things

Two quotes that I need to pass along on this record-setting warm day in February:

"It's not a woman's job to get smaller & smaller until she disappears so the world can be more comfortable."
- Glennon Doyle Melton

"As James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 51, the guarantee of civil liberty lies in having many kinds of faiths, and the guarantee of civil liberty lies in having many kinds of people - in establishing a "multiplicity of interests" to go along with a "multiplicity of sects." The idea doesn't reflect a "weak" desire for niceness. It is, instead, intended to counter the brutal logic of the playground. When there are many kinds of bullied kids, they can unite against the bully: "Even the stronger individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves." "
- Adam Gopnik (and James Madison) in "Americanisms,"  The New Yorker, Feb 13 &20, 2017