Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

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