Amanda

“don’t know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“Uncertainty can be your friend, and friends aren’t just people we put up with. We have adventures with them. We throw our arms around them. Our lives are better because they’re a part of them. The same is true for unknowns.”
― Meg Jay, The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age

“relationship between breastfeeding and education, income, and other variables is a problem for research. Having more education and more resources is linked to better outcomes for infants and children, even independent of breastfeeding.”
― Emily Oster, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

“I’ve learned that the very traits that enabled my survival during childhood inhibit my success as an adult.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis