Lauren

“Ultimately, I argue for a view of the self and of identity that is the opposite of the personal brand: an unstable, shapeshifting thing determined by interactions with others and with different kinds of places.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“Not just wicked, no, I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and utterly futile consolation that it is even impossible for an intelligent man seriously to become anything, and only fools become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent man of the nineteenth century must be and is morally obliged to be primarily a characterless being; and a man of character, an active figure – primarily a limited being. This is my forty-year-old conviction. I am now”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“Imbalance in the sciences is at least partly because women face a web of pressures throughout their lives, which men often don’t face.”
― Angela Saini, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story