150 Quotes by Annalee Newitz

People assigned genders based on behaviors and work roles, often ignoring anatomy. Gender was a form of social recognition.

How many times had Paladin looked into this human face, its features animated by neurological impulse alone? He did not know. Even if he were to sort through his video memories and count them up one by one, he still didn't think he would have the right answer. But after today's mission, human faces would always look different to him. They would remind him of what it felt like to suffer, and to be relieved of suffering.

A hundred years ago, this City[...]'s energy production, its food and fuel, came from all over the world, often traveling thousands of miles. People used energy just to ship more energy to the places that needed it. When you’re high on fossil fuel fumes, I guess almost anything can make sense.

Suffrage didn’t mean equal opportunity.

Is that how humans are raised? Autonomous?

What do you do?”“I make custom penises.” Casey tapped the palm of his hand, beaming Paladin the address of a server packed with information on how to design and order the sex organs you’d always wanted.

Faggot was a word for something that only humans cared about.

Threezed seemed to sense her mood. “Don’t feel bad that you never got indentured.” He touched her arm for a few seconds. “Nobody wants that. Plus, I’m sure you’ve been fucked over in lots of other ways.”It was one of the nicest things a human outside her family had ever said to her.

Everybody is an outsider, if you go deep enough. The trick is reassuring people that you’re their kind of outsider.