Yvone Hobbs

“Because to live at this moment in the world, both online and off, is to find oneself endlessly wriggling on the mast, fighting for control of our very being against the ceaseless siren calls of the people and devices and corporations and malevolent actors trying to trap it.”
― Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

“The great thing to remember is that the mind of man cannot be enlightened permanently by merely teaching him to reject some particular set of superstitions. There is an infinite supply of other superstitions always at hand; and the mind that desires such things, that is, the mind that has not trained itself to the hard discipline of reasonableness and honesty, will, as soon as its devils are cast out, proceed to fill itself with their relations.”
― Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

“She would make a comment, and it would go entirely unremarked upon. Fifteen minutes later, a male justice would make the same point, and the response around the table would be “That’s a good idea.” The day-to-day dismissal of a smart woman’s voice—which so many women have experienced—happened even on the Supreme Court.”
― Nina Totenberg, Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships