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Melissa Gira Grant on Silicon Valley feminism

[...] feminism will never be one of the 'disruptive' values of Silicon Valley so long as Silicon Valley is principally a machine for producing wealth for the few. To the extent that someone who so benefits from that business culture espouses feminism, it will be ruthlessly friendly to the corporate…

—p.12 Lean Out Leaning In (9) missing author
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oblivious feminism

[...] Current poster-woman for corporate feminism, billionaire Sheryl Sandberg represents what we might call 'oblivious' feminism: the kind that has to ignore global financial crises, government austerity policies and ingrained sexism in order to argue that feminism is a kind of moral or existentia…

—p.7 Foreword (7) by Nina Power
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both "good" and "bad" project/nemesis

[...] This is what Lynch is about in this movie: both innocence and damnation; both sinned-against and sinning. Laura Palmer in Fire Walk with Me is both "good" and "bad," and yet also neither: she's complex, contradictory, real. And we hate this possibility in movies; we hate this "_both…

—p.211 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments David Lynch Keeps His Head (146) by David Foster Wallace
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it's not that linear

Remember back when I was in school, I finally say into the putty-colored receiver, how you bought all those lunches and theater tickets for me, when I asked how I'd ever pay you back? Remember what you said?

He's too breathless to respond.

You said, _It's not that linear. You're gonna go on t…

—p.362 Being Who You Are Is Not a Disorder (267) by Mary Karr