The Problem with Everything Quotes

“If there's anything I've learned in twenty-five years, it's that the more honest you are about what you think, the more you sit in solitude with your own thoughts.”
― Meghan Daum, The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

“Even if we manage to get rid of Trump [...] the political left still needs a course correction. We need to stop devouring our own and canceling ourselves. We need fewer sensitivity readers and more empathy as a matter of course. We need to recognize that to deny people their complications and contradictions is to deny them their humanity.”
― Meghan Daum, The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

“If you called for nuance, you were part of the problem.”
― Meghan Daum, The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

“You can't fight tribalism with a tribe. All you can do is read and think and listen. And if you're lucky, eventually will come that rousing, fleeting moment when you hear someone say the thing that makes you feel less alone.”
― Meghan Daum, The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

“The place I took off from three years ago is not the place where I've landed. And though I'm still not sure what to make of this terrain, I can tell you that the intellectual uncertainty into which it has forced me is a lot more interesting - and a lot more honest - than some of the convictions that carried me along before. If nothing else, this is a story of its time, which means it's a story for which we don't yet know the ending.

I've never been more afraid of writing a book. I've never been more certain I had to.”
― Meghan Daum, The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars