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“What I am saying is, alcohol is addictive to everyone. Yet we’ve created a separate disease called alcoholism and forced it upon the minority of the population who are willing to admit they can’t control their drinking, and because of that, we’ve focused on what’s wrong with those few humans rather than on what’s wrong with our alcohol-centric culture or the substance itself.”
― Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

“there are thousands of denominations and sects, each with different messages of “practice this, eat this, wear this” in all religions, worldwide), until the religion has become more like a culture, often far removed from the enlightened teacher’s original message.”
― Julie Rasmussen, It's not all Airy-Fairy Loads of Crap: A Not-too-Serious Perspective on Modern Spirituality

“Because we aren’t the sum of our mistakes but the sum of how we deal with them.”
― Olivia Wildenstein, Celestial

“My passage into sobriety was both slow and fast. Slow, in that it took me seventeen years to realize alcohol had never done me any favors, seventeen years of trying to control it and master it and make it work for me like I imagined it worked for all the other people.”
― Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol