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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!”
― Jay-Z

“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
― Maya Angelou

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.”
― Joni Mitchell

“Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.”
― Jay-Z

“Ah! Pauvre ami, comme il m'aimait!”
― Massenet Jules

“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“Your soul is the whole world.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The river is everywhere.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Real self-care, as you’ll see, is not a one-stop shop like a fancy spa retreat or a journaling app; it’s an internal process that involves making difficult decisions that will pay off tenfold in the long run as a life built around the relationships and activities that matter most to you.”
― Pooja Lakshmin, Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness

“As we transitioned to smartphones, a twenty-four-hour news cycle, and a plethora of ways to keep up with family, friends, and complete strangers via social media, we also saw a parallel need for a balm from that stimulation overload. Self-care was no longer relegated to the realm of health, nor was it about standing up against oppressive systems. Instead, it morphed into a release valve, designed to bring you a momentary sense that things are all right.”
― Pooja Lakshmin, Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness

“Missing the window for a “simple” skill, therefore, has wide-ranging implications because, while new learning may occur, it just becomes more and more difficult. This is especially critical in language accrual, because language, during the first three years, in addition to helping build vocabulary and conversational skills, helps provide a foundation for social, emotional, and cognitive development.”
― Dana Suskind, Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain

“A baby’s brain is a result of that evolutionary history. It does not learn language passively, but only in an environment of social responsiveness and social interaction.”
― Dana Suskind, Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain

“When your self-image is as a math “nonperformer” and you’re challenged to learn a math skill, your brain uses up your intellectual energy by arguing with you that you really can’t do it, a kind of mental barricade on the road to accomplishment. You may inherently have the ability to learn it, but that ability is eroded by the roiling doubts that wear it away. Even girls who do well in math typically assess themselves as inferior to their male counterparts, self-stereotyping apparent in girls as young as seven. Shown to affect long-term achievement, it’s hard not to equate this with the relatively small numbers of women going into math, engineering, and computer science.”
― Dana Suskind, Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain

“One of the greatest ironies is that the gender stereotypes seem to be a legacy handed down from mother to daughter, a reflection of one generation’s insecurity being passed on to the next generation, ad infinitum. Moms consistently overestimate their sons’ math abilities while underestimating their daughters’, even when confronted with actual math achievement.”
― Dana Suskind, Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain

“if she chooses to be happy now, I’ll support it until she’s ready to be unhappy, and then I’ll be there too. That’s what besties do.”
― Jen Lancaster, The Anti-Heroes

“By taking away that sacred pain, the medical-industrial complex is effectively eroding the mother-child relationship. That pain bonds you. It’s an honor and a privilege to become a mother. You have to earn it.”
― Alexandra Andrews, Who Is Maud Dixon?

“Without a child I could dance across the sexism of my era, whereas becoming a mother shoved my face right down into it.”
― Miranda July, All Fours