Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.
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Zum Autor"When they laugh, it sounds like confetti."
"I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused."
"The cost of growth is always a small act of violence."
"But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...Didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?"
"Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center."
"Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways."