Amanda

“think that any successful policy program would recognize what my old high school’s teachers see every day: that the real problem for so many of these kids is what happens (or doesn’t happen) at home.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“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

“If truth matters at all, then you must act when you learn the undeniable truth of a great evil that has been committed. Inaction in the face of such hard knowledge is at best cowardice; at worst, it’s a rejection of the value of truth, an admission that you prefer a life of lies in spite of the horrors that metastasize from the compounding deceits.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City