Kate

“The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have knowledge. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. The present mincing horror at free womanhood must pass if we are ever to be rid of the bestiality of free manhood; not by guarding the weak in weakness do we gain strength, but by making weakness free and strong. —W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”
― Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

“Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner. This”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“I got as far as Berlin. I put my signature on the Reichstag: “I, Sofya Kuntsevich, came here to kill war.” When I see a common grave, I kneel before it. Before every common grave…always on my knees…”
― Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

“It’s all generated, maybe, by the fact that the attitude of the populace is to try to find the answer instead of trying to find a man who has a way of getting at the answer.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist