Lisa

“Shall we make a new rule of life... always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“The same was true of Charles Murray’s seminal Losing Ground, another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies—which addressed the way our government encouraged social decay through the welfare state.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“the measure of a man is how he treats the women in his family.” His wisdom came from experience,”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that their children will fare better economically than they have. Among working-class whites, only 44 percent share that expectation. Even more surprising, 42 percent of working-class whites—by far the highest number in the survey—report that their lives are less economically successful than those of their parents’.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis