Bethany

“my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“This was a world where one became outdated before one’s time was up. An entire country standing up and applauding the fact that no one was capable of doing anything properly anymore. The unreserved celebration of mediocrity.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“When the public allows itself to be fooled by a smooth-talking wannabe dictator, “what you get in the end,” Alice insisted, “is your Fuehrer, your Duce, your Rex.”
― Marc Peyser