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“The underlying message was this: if you want your report to impact a perpetrator’s career or education, you have to be willing to take a hit, too.”
― Nicole Bedera, On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence

“To Camilla, the Nassar case made clear that, if you were the first person coming forward, the best anyone could hope for was that your betrayal might offer another survivor validation in the future.”
― Nicole Bedera, On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence

“The notion of intrinsic motivation or self-generated drive is held as the ideal, but ADHD is characterized by motivation difficulties. There is nothing wrong with extrinsic motivation, using accountability to others and rewards to help you get engaged in a task, which you can think of as outsourcing accountability (which is not the same as outsourcing responsibility).”
― J. Russell Ramsay, The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out

“In situations like this”
― Gary Smith, Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor