Fiona

“How we organise society is a choice. Public policy, laws, regulations, institutions -- these are all choices, perhaps not in unlimited ways, but they are nonetheless human-made. Inequality is part of that choice.”
― Teo You Yenn, Unease: Life in Singapore Families

“Wirting and rewriting is the attempt to communicate not just a truth but the ecstasy of a truth.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“Social conditions ('structure') shape the limits and possibilities of ordinary people's everyday habits and sensibilities ('culture'). What sociologists are talking about when we talk about 'culture' -- meanings, values, practices, in this case about motherhood and fatherhood -- take form around specific social conditions. Picture the metal structures of the 'Supertrees' at Gardens by the Bay and the ferns and vines that grow up around, through, on them -- that's the image of structure and culture I'm trying to evoke here.”
― Teo You Yenn, Unease: Life in Singapore Families

“We’re hollowing out the pipeline of people who could shape what comes next. Hand that over to machines, and what’s left isn’t a career. It’s a system, running without us.”
― Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything