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“the prisons and madhouses have locked them up, so you think you’re the only one out there losing your mind when in fact there are many like you, trapped in this supposedly free world of work and sleep and endless fucking cakes.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“And we haven’t even gotten to the Good Girl’s newest and most insidious iteration: the Independent Woman”
― Kasia Urbaniak, Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power

“Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“When management is the only path to higher compensation, the quality of management suffers, and the lives of the people who work for these reluctant managers become miserable.”
― Kim Malone Scott, Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean