Lauren Sweeney

“Reform of our common life will not be led by socially responsible corporations or by enlightened CEOs. It will be led by concerned and active citizens.”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

“. This bereavement exclusion no longer exists, partly because of the timeline: Are people really supposed to be done grieving after two months? Can’t grief last six months or a year or, in some form or another, an entire lifetime?”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“In a review of the relevant literature it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and probably reflects the abnormal functioning of the central nervous system.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“Commitments to social responsibility are also conveniently reassuring to talented or privileged young people who want to do good while also doing well, and who don’t want to acknowledge the cruel joke that, as Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All, has pointed out, people with the most to lose from genuine social change have put themselves in charge of social change.”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It