Melissa’s Reviews > Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism > Status Update

I’m struck by the impermanence of importance

Joel doesn’t seem to care at all, it’s all money. And what harm does it do? He tells us it’s clear Clinton’s going to win anyway.

How did I go from that to nearly dying the sort of silent death you see in a nineteenth century novel. … The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world

It feels like this job is taking too much from me, permeating everything, poisoning everything.

The narcissism of small differences