For some American moms, there’s something morally righteous about committing to motherhood at the expense of their bodies. It’s like giving yourself over to a higher cause.
“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.”
― On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
― 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.”
― On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
― 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).”
― The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out
― The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out
“In situations like this”
― Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
― Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
“That the fact that he had been born, that he wasn’t in a jail cell somewhere, was not by dint of his pulling himself up by the bootstraps, not by hard work or belief in the American Dream, but by mere chance.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
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