Anonymous Beth

“With a partner you had the story of how you met, choosing each other out of everyone in the world, and the years together were chaptered with joint decisions - no one could ever say it was all a dream; both parties were accountable. Not so with a child. For the child it WAS a dream. And the unpunctuated days into years moved much more quickly (for the parent), so all one could do was free-fall through the chaos, madly making sandwiches and washing hair and hope that there would be some ritual, some time for reflection, at the end.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“Laziness, especially in this context, is not bad. In fact, part of being a wholehearted, integrated person is embracing that you can’t do A-level work in every part of your life. You must actively choose to let some things be easy or lazy so that you can focus on what matters the most.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“How have so many humans reached the point where they accept that even miserable, unnecessary work is actually morally superior to no work at all?”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“Silicon Valley is awash in wooden Montessori toys and shrouded in total screen bans. Parents at work talk about how they don't allow their teens to have mobile phones, which only underscores how well these executives understand the real damage their product inflicts on young minds.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism