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“I envied men’s indifference to personal safety—how they could amble through a dark alley without thinking twice.”
― Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here

“The Facebook document detailed the many ways in which the corporation uses its stores of behavioral surplus to pinpoint the exact moment at which a young person needs a “confidence boost” and is therefore most vulnerable to a specific configuration of advertising cues and nudges: “By monitoring posts, pictures, interactions, and Internet activity, Facebook can work out when young people feel ‘stressed,’ ‘defeated,’ ‘overwhelmed,’ ‘anxious,’ ‘nervous,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘silly,’ ‘useless,’ and a ‘failure.’”20”
― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

“I feel sort of like I should talk to a psychologist or something about it, but they don’t do stuff like that here, there is no local friendly community health center; you have to ask your GP, who’d send you round the local loony bin for a consultation, and since they’re really big on drugs here, you’d probably just walk out with a prescription.”
― Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty

“And now here you are, sitting in your chair by the window, gazing out urgently, raptly at “your” tree—its shapely green canopy, its black velvety shadows, its sinuously curved trunk, its barky brown bark.”
― Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

“Such a fantasy of miscegenation could be a form of racism or simple adoration, but either way he was in no mood to banish it.”
― Ian McEwan, Solar

“We’re told we can avoid these and many other even worse outcomes if we just buy the right food/toys/educational experiences. I’d pin a lot of my fears on the news and the internet, but this entire phenomenon—selling fear because fear sells—could describe all late-stage capitalism,”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them.” —TRAVIS RIEDER, BIOETHICS PROFESSOR AT JOHNS HOPKINS”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“My husband seems to love our daughter as much as I do with so much less of the fear. Is it because women are intellectually superior and more complex than men, which allows us to multitask and endows us with the ability to think many steps ahead? Or are women more fearful because we lack upper-body strength?”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“did you know that meditation apps in particular share and sell more of your data to spam than any other app?”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“There’s even a group called “birth strikers,” women who refuse to have children due to the severity of the ecological crisis. (Or at least, that’s what they tell their disappointed Jewish mothers.)”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“While I was busy not learning about science, a movement to stop the perpetuation of the human species was blossoming. Zero population growth, or ZPG, is a movement that believes that a constantly increasing population is actually responsible for many of our problems: pollution, violence, loss of values and individual privacy. Founded in 1968 by sociologist Kingsley Davis, ZPG gained momentum in the eighties. Perhaps it was even taught in private schools, but I had certainly never heard of it.”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.” —ISABEL ALLENDE”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“I want my daughter to know that gender fluidity is real—but so is sexism. And that misogyny is proving to be a hard habit for humanity to break.”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“While my vision of what feminism was and wasn’t contained a lot of flawed thinking, we’re also now better able to recognize that the feminist movement hasn’t always been as inclusive as it should be, leaving out the voices of women of color and working women and working mothers from less-advantaged economic backgrounds. For so long, so many of the spokespeople of the feminist movement were (and continue to be, in many cases) elite, educated white women.”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“I’m not sure men realize the extent to which women are under the constant threat of strange men whipping out and/or aiming their penises at them. It can happen anywhere: the sidewalk, the subway, a male comedian’s dressing room.”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“I don’t understand why everyone loves Disneyland. I don’t like long lines or cold turkey legs, and I don’t think Cinderella’s palace looks beautiful lit up at night because I’ve seen actual beautiful architecture. I wish we could divide up people between those who love Disneyland and those who don’t and all the “don’ts” could meet—I bet we would all really love each other’s company.”
― Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children

“The education market is ripe, and I mean falling-off-the-tree ripe, to be disrupted.”
― Scott Galloway, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

“Pages are written out longhand, not by computer. Writing by hand yields us a handmade life. Writing by computer is faster, but speed is not what we are after. We are after depth and specificity. We want to record exactly how we feel and why.”
― Julia Cameron, The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention