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21 " Looking out over that poisoned water, it seemed like such a scam of anti-earth abuser culture to teach people that they cause their own cancer with negative thinking. Maybe this desert lake had been guilty of negative thinking? "
― Ariel Gore , The End of Eve
22 " Shame can look a lot like rude. "
― Ariel Gore , We Were Witches
23 " Maybe I could rewrite the fairy tale of my life, transforming every blow to the head, and every cut to the cunt, and every crucified doll into some kind of an initiation. "
24 " Hochschild wonders about the false self we create when we turn our happiness on and off like a light, when we use emotion as a commodity in the workplace. As women, we were taught to use our emotions at home, too, as a service to our families.... The manufacture of happiness actually leads to emotional burnout. There's an ironic correlation between forced cheerfulness and depression.... Delta Airlines, which institutionalized positive emotional management in the 1970s, now spends nine million dollars a year paying for antidepressants for its employees and their dependents. (Fuck Happiness, 64). "
― Ariel Gore
