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Virginia Woolf warned us that a woman’s writing will not be adequately judged so long as the standards of judgment are established and defended by men.

— The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Earthsea Cycle) por Ursula K. Le Guin

Potser et podria haver dit que, de gran, voldria ser mestra d’escola, no tant per ensenyar geografia sinó per aprendre de la història. Quin interès té explicar els rius d’Europa que esquitxen els mapes si pots incidir en l’odi reconcentrat que ha saltat fronteres, ha aniquilat persones i ha destruït poblacions senceres sense misericòrdia?

— 32 de març por Xavier Bosch

Every time we deputize tech companies with government-like enforcement duties, we make it that much harder to cut them down to size (because they need to be big to fulfill those duties) and that much harder for smaller tech to offer better, more user-centric services (because small tech companies, startups, co-ops, nonprofits and individual tinkerers can’t afford to comply with the regulations that force them to police their users’ conduct).

— The Internet Con por Cory Doctorow

Indeed, it’s when the economy is at its worst that treating people well matters most.

— Work Rules! por Laszlo Bock

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

— Good Omens por Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

But “consumer” is only one of our aspects in society. We are also “workers,”“parents,”“residents” and, not least, “citizens.” If our cheaper products come at the expense of our living wage, or the viability of our neighborhoods, or the democratically accountable authority of our elected representatives, have we really come out ahead?

— The Internet Con por Cory Doctorow

They believe that children fundamentally need space and trust to allow them to master things by themselves, to make and solve their own problems. This creates genuine self-esteem and self-reliance because it comes from the child’s own internal cheerleader, not from someone else.

— The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids por Jessica Joelle Alexander, Iben Sandahl