“It all goes back and back, to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.”— George R. R. Martin, Tyrion Lannister, amazon.com
“If men are in control of the media (and they are – over 95% of clout positions in media are held by men), then what does that do to stories about women? If narratives about women are being controlled by men, is what’s being told about women really accurate — or is ‘correct,’ ‘normal,’ ‘real’ womanho…”— Melissa A. Fabello, everydayfeminism.com
“Not all poverty is equal and not all people living in poverty are identical.”— John Green, youtube.com
“For me, the brilliance of Behind the Beautiful Forevers is that it refuses to allow those of us who live in the rich world to hide behind shields like micro-finance and charity.”— John Green, youtube.com
“How do you make sense of a world where luck plays such a huge role in your triumphs and tragedies?”— John Green, youtube.com
“If I come home with straightforward answers and simple solutions, I am probably doing it wrong.”— John Green, youtube.com
“A large 2004 University of Chicago study submitted thousands of resumes to a huge variety of employers, and all the resumes were completely identical - except for the applicant's name. It could be Emily or Brendan or Lakisha or Jamal, and Lakisha and Jamal got 50% fewer callbacks than Emily and Bren…”— John Green, youtube.com
“Totalitarian terror achieved its most terrible triumph when it succeeded in cutting the moral person off from the individualist escape. When a man is faced with the alternative of betraying and thus murdering his friends or of sending his wife and children to their death; how is he to decide? The al…”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com