“I'm committed enough to the 'no diets' principle of my own eating disorder recovery to resist the temptation to chew ice and exercise obsessively again, but that doesn't mean I'm deliriously happy with the way I look 24/7, no matter how many defiant crop-top pics I post to Instagram.”— Emma Specter, vogue.com
“And so it continues. This is my life now and maybe it is yours too. I honestly don’t hate it, though I don’t think it behooves me to analyse it.”— Charlotte Owen, bustle.com
“The House voted 275-134 to pass the $2,000 direct payments bill on Tuesday, with 44 Republicans joining the majority of Democrats.”— Axios, axios.com
“Making bread is closer to sex than to cooking. It’s about diving in with your hands, massaging it, making it rise. And there is no fast climax; it takes at least 24 hours to make decent bread. All this time you have to care for it lovingly while you wait. And wait.”— Albertina Coacci, nytimes.com
“Yet, folks are still continuing to put on their party pants and get together sans masks, indoors, without social distancing.”— Sara Li, cosmopolitan.com
“COVID-19 is now killing more than 1,100 people every day nationwide. Case numbers are growing exponentially amid a nationwide surge in disease in most states.”— Dan Vergano, buzzfeednews.com
“People suffering, dying, and protesting all around you, while you think about dinner. If you’re trying to carry on while people around you die, your society is not collapsing. It’s already fallen down.”— Indi Samarajiva, gen.medium.com
“We are so tired, please just let us have this and trust that we were safe.”— Alanna Bennett, eater.com
“Wealthy children have tended to move online with relative ease, their Zoom classes augmented by private tutors and quiet bedrooms with every educational accoutrement. Other children, meanwhile, have struggled to get online at all, hampered by sputtering Wi-Fi, crowded homes, and often the need to ca…”— Caroline O'Donovan, buzzfeednews.com
“It’s a milestone the country was never supposed to reach.”— Alyssa Fowers , Reis Thebault, The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com
“Like any great artist, Beyoncé knows when her public needs her most: Now, as pandemic-induced anxiety and depression rage on, the 24-time Grammy winner has released a brand-new visual album.”— Emma Specter, Vogue, vogue.com
“Acne, by comparison, seems like a walk in the pus-filled park.”— Rachel Krause, Refinery29, refinery29.com
“They’re like, 'Let’s see if Rolex is having a sale.' And I’m like, Oh, okay, I’m out of the conversation now.”— Anna Silman, thecut.com
“A handful of mostly southern U.S. states will begin loosening economic restrictions this week in the midst of a still virulent pandemic, providing a live-fire test of whether America's communities can start to reopen without triggering a surge that may force them to close again.”— reuters, news.trust.org
“In the coming months and years, there will really be two pandemics in America. One will be disruptive and frightening to its victims, but thanks to their existing advantages and lucky near misses with the virus, they will likely emerge from it relatively stable—physically, psychologically, and finan…”— Joe Pinsker, theatlantic.com
“Nadia, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York, has become the first of her kind to test positive for the coronavirus.”— Alaa Elassar, cnn.com
“The show had gone on as usual in recent weeks, even as the pandemic upended life in Germany.”— Thomas Rogers, nytimes.com
“As the news about the coronavirus pandemic becomes grimmer, and governments and businesses issue closing or work-from-home directives, many of us are experiencing a variety of negative emotions. We feel anxiety in response to the uncertainty of the situation; sadness related to losing our daily sour…”— Jelena Kecmanovic, thehour.com