Melanie Gauthier

“Mamaw always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew. I’m”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“whenever people ask me what I’d most like to change about the white working class, I say, “The feeling that our choices don’t matter.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“Religious folks are much happier. Regular church attendees commit fewer crimes, are in better health, live longer, make more money, drop out of high school less frequently, and finish college more frequently than those who don’t attend church at all.16”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I’m some sort of genius, that only a truly extraordinary person could have made it to where I am today. With all due respect to those people, I think that theory is a load of bullshit. Whatever”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis