Steph

“You wouldn't plant a flower in toxic soil and expect it to thrive. So why in the world would you expect the same of yourself?”
― Selina Barker, Burnt Out: The Exhausted Person's Six-Step Guide to Thriving in a Fast-Paced World

“The story of middle-class ascendancy is all about individual hard work. And no one wants to lose any of the hard-won benefits of that work, which helps explain the popularity of the Personal Responsibility Crusade amongst boomers and their parents. Members of the middle class were so freaked out by seeping economic instability that they started pulling the ladder up behind them.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

“Don't be so tied up trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The way that we live, the way that we're conditioned, the patriarchy, capitalist, white supremacy. Those systems are all designed to keep the masses knackered so that the chosen few at the top can be successful and can gain from our labor”
― Tamu Thomas, Women Who Work Too Much