Beatriz de Souza

“Asking tough, even dangerous questions rarely feels good in the moment. A preference for cognitive simplicity leads us to fall back on assumptions.”
― Todd Kashdan, The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively

“We engage poorly with rebels not simply because their ideas unsettle us or we assume we know everything, but because we resent these individuals for making us painfully aware of our own limitations.”
― Todd Kashdan, The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively

“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Talking is existing.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men