Brooke Patterson

“White men have had a nearly exclusive grip on political, economic, social, and sexual power in the United States, despite being only around a third of its population. The way that a minority power protects itself from the potential uprising of a majority is to discourage unification of that majority. And the best way to discourage unification is to split the majority against itself, by offering benefits and protections of power to some, while denying them to others.”
― Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“Pain has a unique ability to pull lives otherwise too busy to stop, out of their banality, toward their great cosmic humility.”
― Benjamin Lorr, Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga