Victoria

“Are you happy? he once asked Jude (they must have been drunk).

I don't think happiness is for me, Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat.

But it's for you, Willem.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Men are more likely than women to be involved in a car crash, which means they dominate the numbers of those seriously injured in car accidents. But when a woman is involved in a car crash, she is 47% more likely to be seriously injured than a man, and 71% more likely to be moderately injured,46 even when researchers control for factors such as height, weight, seat-belt usage, and crash intensity.47 She is also 17% more likely to die.48 And it’s all to do with how the car is designed – and for whom.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“PMS affects 90% of women, but is chronically under-studied: one research round-up found five times as many studies on erectile dysfunction than on PMS.”
― Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness