Bridget Graber

“After all, a society that takes care of its own does not produce children who grow up dreaming of burning it down.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant

“War was ugly, exhausting, and above all else, tedious – an odd thing to say about a situation in which there were more explosions and adrenaline than you knew what to do with. But for all the strategising, for all the narrow escapes and near misses, when you boiled it down, war was nothing more than an argument in which no one had landed on a better solution than killing each other.”
― Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

“In other words, the halo effect of the industry prevents people from seeing—or acting upon—problems that may exist within it. When workplace issues crop up, such as undercompensation, racism, or sexism, they are seen as isolated incidents rather than systemic flaws.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

“At the organization level, generous vacation policies and wellness benefits without a reduction in the amount of work managers expect from workers do little to change the culture.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work