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Mark Manson
“The deeper the pain, the more helpless we feel against our problems, and the more entitlement we adopt to compensate for those problems. This entitlement plays out in one of two ways: I’m awesome and the rest of you all suck, so I deserve special treatment. I suck and the rest of you are all awesome, so I deserve special treatment.”
Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Raven Leilani
“I’m an open book,” I say, thinking of all the men who have found it illegible. I made mistakes with these men. I dove for their legs as they tried to leave my house. I chased them down the hall with a bottle of Listerine, saying, I can be a beach read, I can get rid of all these clauses, please, I’ll just revise.”
Raven Leilani , Luster

Beatriz Serrano
“Or maybe I’m not a monster at all; maybe I’m just the result of a life of work, another human being maintaining the status quo out of pure laziness, and now I appropriate other people’s ideas the way older people used to appropriate mine. Maybe I’m just another stagnant adult who’s lost the energy to change things. Something that, come to think of it, might make me the worst sort of monster.”
Beatriz Serrano, El descontento

Beatriz Serrano
“I feel that today I can adopt that personality. Be the shark, the winner; take on the personality of women who’ve turned work into some sort of sacred virtue, the way motherhood used to be, and who hang up photos in their offices with the hashtag #GirlBoss. I’ll turn into capitalism’s idea of a feminist for the next eight hours. An überwoman who can handle everything. The kind who has routines from five to nine and then from nine to five. Some sort of cyborg promoted by business schools, with all the positive qualities associated with women but without any of the bad ones: the disciples of Sheryl Sandberg who want to break the glass ceiling with their stiletto heels and leave the broken glass on the floor for the South American cleaning lady to deal with, and whose idea of equality is having a parking spot in the fancy area reserved for the executive board.”
Beatriz Serrano, El descontento

Naomi Klein
“How far one will stray to find a new home?”
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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