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There was too much at stake to ask questions, to be dumb, to be a curious student, in front of a room of white folk who assumed all black folk were intellectually less than. For the first time in my life, the classroom scared me.
“There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't.”
― Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
― Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
“...we all live our lives with multiple identities intersecting with one another, creating a mix of privileges and challenges that all people carry with us. Race, gender, economic background, religion, immigration status, family acceptance, and so much more create a complex matrix that sometimes erects obstacles but other times ensures support in overcoming barriers put in your way.”
― Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
― Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
“Anger has a bad rap, but it is actually one of the most hopeful and forward thinking of all our emotions. It begets transformation, manifesting our passion and keeping us invested in the world. It is a rational and emotional response to trespass, violation, and moral disorder. It bridges the divide between what “is” and what “ought” to be, between a difficult past and an improved possibility. Anger warns us viscerally of violation, threat, and insult.”
― Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
― Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“If our generation has been told for decades that we have so much freedom, so many choices, such opportunities, the question women with young children face is: how free are we to reach for the stars in midlife if we have someone else depending on us? Especially when our concept of good parenting involves so much more brain space and such higher costs than it did for our mothers and grandmothers? And when we expect ourselves to be excellent, highly engaged parents while also being excellent, highly engaged employees?”
― Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
― Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
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