Robin

“Millennials became the first generation to fully conceptualize themselves as walking college resumes. With assistance from our parents, society, and educators, we came to understand ourselves, consciously or not, as “human capital”: subjects to be optimized for better performance in the economy.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

“The Moon has known my first breath, all three times I’ve taken it, and She loves me all the same.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“The endurance of the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” narrative has always relied on people ignoring who’s allowed boots and who’s given the straps with which to pull them up.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

“We were raised to believe that if we worked hard enough, we could win the system - of American capitalism and meritocracy - or at least live comfortably within it. But something happened in the late 2010s. We looked up from our work and realized, there’s no winning the system when the system itself is broken.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation