Casey

“But the more rural the American, the more dependent he is for his way of life on the U.S. government. And the more rural the American, the more likely he was to have voted for Donald Trump. So you might think that Trump, when he took office, would do everything he could to strengthen and grow the little box marked “Rural Development.” That’s not what has happened.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“Sexism is all the big and little ways that society draws a box around women and says, 'You stay in there.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“I’m not sure how to solve all this. My gender is my gender. My voice is my voice. To quote Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet, under FDR, “The accusation that I’m a woman is incontrovertible.” Other women will run for President, and they will be women, and they will have women’s voices. Maybe that will be less unusual by then.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Emergencies are crucibles that contain and reveal the daily, slower-burning problems of medicine and beyond—our vulnerabilities; our trouble grappling with uncertainty, how we die, how we prioritize and divide what is most precious and vital and limited; even our biases and blindnesses.”
― Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital