Stephy Simon

“Men at the top are often unaware of the benefits they enjoy simply because they’re men, and this can make them blind to the disadvantages associated with being a woman. Women lower down also believe that men at the top are entitled to be there, so they try to play by the rules and work harder to advance rather than raise questions or voice concerns about the possibility of bias. As a result, everyone becomes complicit in perpetuating an unjust system.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“When you make a self-inventory, you’re figuring out all the things that make you drink. And admitting to someone else all the bad things you’ve done is a pretty good way of figuring out the moments where everything spiraled out of control.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one drops one’s scissors, or anything that happens.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Everybody will have an opinion about what you should do, but what matters is what you want for yourself, and not what others want you to want. Please reject the idea that motherhood and work are mutually exclusive.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele; or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions