Barbara murphy

“remarkably bad at understanding other people’s motivations, even when they know them terribly well. We write all sorts of inaccurate stories in our heads.”
― Jojo Moyes, Someone Else's Shoes

“My interest in behavioral psychology is part of what drove me to write this book, and appreciating the scholarly foundation that defines the field helped shape this book’s thesis.”
― Jared Cohen, Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

“He suspected there was “something wrong with her ‘upstairs.’” How else to explain this “unhinged meltdown”2 in which she dared defy him? It could have been Elizabeth confronting McFarland in the fall of 1860. It was Nancy Pelosi versus Donald Trump in October 2019. History favors reruns. Because that pernicious accusation of insanity, deliberately intended to undermine, haunts the annals of history like a spirit photograph, unsettling and at times unseen.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence

“None of us chose the circumstances of our birth. We had nothing to do with having been born into privilege or under stigma. We have everything to do with what we do with our God-given talents”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents