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“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

“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

“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

“Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. Being an engineer or an architect had once been high aspirations.”
― Marcus Sakey, A Better World