Mary

“We need a world that insists upon safety and dignity for all of us—not because we are beautiful, healthy, blameless, exceptional, or beyond reproach, but because we are human beings.”
― Aubrey Gordon, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

“By the way, I am changing the name of German measles. Hereafter it will be known as 'Liberty measles'." And it did bear that extraordinary title for the duration of [World War I]. War psychosis is a fearful and wonderful disrupter of horse sense.”
― S. Josephine Baker, Fighting for Life

“The writer Rob Horning once argued in his newsletter that datafication, or the process of rendering our lives as data, is "first and foremost, a kind of surveillance designed to impose classifications and norms on the surveilled while devaluing whatever ways they understand themselves. It's a way to encourage artists to minimize their own conception of their work and maximize its machine legibility." This is partly what's unfolding when Spotify encourages musicians to understand themselves in terms of their data.”
― Liz Pelly, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

“...it's not surprising that Charlotte wants me to be the mother for her now. I can be the "normal" parent who safely and lovingly drives the car, and she can have the experience of being taken care of in a way she never has before. But in order to cast me in the competent role, Charlotte believes she has to cast herself as the helpless one, letting me see only her problems -- or, as Wendell once put it in relation to what I do with him: "seduce me with her misery." Patients often do this as a way to ensure that the therapist won't forget about their pain if they mention something positive.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed