María Braeuner

“I said that it was amazing to me that a group of anthropologists wouldn’t recognize the biases that they were perpetuating themselves.”
― Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

“Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through “opinions” and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through “opinions” or ridicule.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate possible causes of failure.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel

“Assigning guilt to the victim helped distance us from what happened to her; it wouldn’t happen to us, as long as we stayed in check. But in so doing, we had unconsciously been perpetuating a story whose moral derived from the very patriarchal system we thought we were surmounting by telling the story in the first place.”
― Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence