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Claire Dederer
“Because we are atomized individuals with no collective power, we are left with a grandiose yet ultimately meaningless sense of the importance of our purchases, our gestures, our decisions.

Fisher's book asks us to accept the amorality of our own consumption. In other words, we keep looking to consumption as the site of our ethical choices, but the answer doesn't lie there. Our judgment doesn't make us better consumers. It actually makes us more trapped in the spectacle, more complicit in what Fisher calls "the atmosphere of late capitalism.”
Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Joanne Lipman
“A bigger hurdle, once we drill down into it, is the basic assumption that underlies the pipeline theory: that we are fair in the first place.”
Joanne Lipman, That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together

Joanne Lipman
“One study found that women with blond hair earn 7 percent more than brunettes. Women who wear makeup get better jobs and quicker promotions. Thin women outearn heavier women; white women who are overweight pay a financial penalty of a 12 percent drop in their wealth.......

The average woman spends $15,000 on cosmetics alone during her lifetime.”
Joanne Lipman, That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together

David   Epstein
“everyone needs habits of mind that allow them to dance across disciplines.”
David Epstein, Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Joanne Lipman
“Thomas-Hunt’s research had shown that if we believe everybody is biased, we will be too. But the research also demonstrated the reverse: if we believe that everyone around us is trying hard to fight against those stereotypes and prejudices, we’ll do the same. Call it peer pressure, or call it a pack mentality. Whatever it is, it works. Our own biases disappear.”
Joanne Lipman, That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together – A Practical Solutions Guide for Achieving Gender Parity and Transforming Culture

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