Roberta Kobbe

“All the athletic exercises in the world are no power to the individual unless he compel those bars and dumbbells to yield to him and strengthen muscle; the power for which he himself pays in effort.”
― William George Jordan, The Majesty of Calmness

“Many people do not even know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare and simply consider them "entitlement program," as if tax breaks and corporate subsidies aren't entitlements by another name.”
― Alice Wong

“saw how having a hobby gave me something to do other than obsess about the social dynamics around me. The more I cross-stitched, the less I cared what other people thought about me.”
― Sutton Foster, Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life

“Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry