LAURI CRUMLEY COATES

“As we become less afraid, we become more dangerous. Patriarchy can exist only so long as women are afraid.”
― Sonia Johnson, Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation

“There are some things worth dying for and some things worth killing for and some things that could make a man do all sorts of things he never knew he was capable of until the time came to do them.”
― David Joy, The Line That Held Us

“THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ITINERANTS, drifters, hobos, restless souls. But now, in the second millennium, a new kind of wandering tribe is emerging. People who never imagined being nomads are hitting the road. They’re giving up traditional houses and apartments to live in what some call “wheel estate”—vans, secondhand RVs, school buses, pickup campers, travel trailers, and plain old sedans. They are driving away from the impossible choices that face what used to be the middle class. Decisions like: Would you rather have food or dental work? Pay your mortgage or your electric bill? Make a car payment or buy medicine? Cover rent or student loans? Purchase warm clothes or gas for your commute? For many the answer seemed radical at first. You can’t give yourself a raise, but what about cutting your biggest expense? Trading a stick-and-brick domicile for life on wheels?”
― Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

“If you are sitting in the dark (due to depression) go turn the light on. If you can't find the light switch, seek the help of someone who can.”
― Stephanie Anne Allen, How to Survive Depression: Book #1 in How to Survive Series