Jennifer

“In the most blunt and pragmatic sense, diversity is optional to many white organizations, because their historical success has not relied on it.”
― Adrian Pei, The Minority Experience: Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities

“She was too much in the habit of criticizing and complaining to stop, so I had decided to get out of the habit of taking it personally. I could see my mother's words were my grandmother's legacy of disappointment, and the best I could do was to live in a way that would break the cycle.”
― Eleanor Brown, The Light of Paris

“Was it harder to be a woman? Or an immigrant? Or a Chinese person outside of China? And why did being a good any of the above require you to edit yourself down so you could become someone else?”
― Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

“It remains a damning fact of life that we ask too much of those who are marginalized and too little of those who are not.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times