Maureen F. McHugh Quotes

#1. We do not want to be haunds, teacher. We just want the haunds to go elsewhere for easy prey.

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#2. I thought this life of thoughtful liberalism was my birthright, too. Before I understood that my generation was to be born in interesting times.

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#3. Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.

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#4. It's good to be loved. But it isn't enough.

Maureen F. McHugh

#5. In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

Maureen F. McHugh

#6. Children are a blessing. They are a happiness so sharp that it feels like pain.

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#7. Sydney did not believe in life after death, but in her experience, admitting this could lead to long and complicated discussions in which people seemed to think that since she did not believe in God or the afterlife, there was nothing to stop her from becoming an ax murderer.

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#8. Government is big, we are small. We are only free when we slip through the cracks.

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#9. History is sensitive dependent on initial conditions. You cannot predict the future.

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#10. At Cuo, everyone will stare at me. And even though I know I'm not ugly any more I'm afraid to have them all look at me. They'll be thinking about my old face and comparing it to my new one. I don't want to be the old San-xiang anymore.

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#11. It's true that we are free to do whatever we want, even go to France on a whim. We can make any choice we want. We can do anything we want. We just have to not care about consequences.

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#12. One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, she would work in the one place where a geeky fat girl could get dates. It had not been entirely untrue. But as someone had pointed out to her in school, although the odds are good, the goods are odd.

Maureen F. McHugh