Tammy

“For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing-the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“Many people in the United States believe that urban poverty is
a result of lack of motivation, welfare dependency, and a poor work ethic
(see “The ‘Culture of Poverty’: Poverty as Pathology,” p. 422); but Newman
challenges this vision as a gap in our understanding of urban environments
and inner-city economies. In these milieus she has found a broad array of
hard-working citizens for whom hard work does not pay off, who struggle to provide for their families, who are one paycheck away from financial
disaster.”
― Kenneth J Guest, Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

“Percentage of
Population*
Percentage of
Private Wealth
Number of
People
Top 1% of Population 35.6% 3,000,000 people
Next 19% of Population 51.6% 57,000,000 people
Bottom 80% of Population 12.8% 240,000,000 people”
― Kenneth J Guest, Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age