Isabel Barbosa

“History isn’t a single narrative, but thousands of alternative narratives. Whenever we choose to tell one, we are also choosing to silence others.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings—and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity. And how can we create a moment of lift in human hearts so that we all want to lift up women? Because sometimes all that’s needed to lift women up is to stop pulling them down.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“Religion is any all-encompassing story that confers superhuman legitimacy on human laws, norms and values. It legitimises human social structures by arguing that they reflect superhuman laws.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“Thus, we can finally rephrase the question about the modern world’s inequalities as follows: why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents? Those disparate rates constitute history’s broadest pattern and my book’s subject.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies