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“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“If people are pressured by society into saying they have particular abilities, then the true value they have as themselves becomes blurred. If you say you have value because you can do particular things, you will always be judged by established social standards. So I never say I can do anything. And I don’t do anything.”
― Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

“Normally Fosco adores Caroline’s pieces, fragmented narratives involving anxious young women who clearly have never had jobs, who instead brood through afternoonish times of day, think quirky thoughts, bake, and are wistful.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“I think that when I was looking for a job, I felt exactly as I do today—that I don’t want my identity to be defined by a set of abilities.”
― Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing