“Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true” EffortPovertySurvivalHardworkZimbabweEconomic Hardship Book:Sweet Medicine Source: Sweet Medicine
“You look at me and judge me. And I just want to ask, for what? I am in full control. No one has a gun to my head. Why can't this be my profession,one I have chosen for myself? I tell you prostitutes are professional in their skills and practise it like the vocation of true apostles- and why shouldn't they? What's so different from the accountant or the doctor selling his time? I ended up in this profession in the same way someone might end up being a lawyer because the couldn't get into engineering or dentistry,or because they couldn't get into medicine, or even a banker who grew up telling everyone they want to be a soccer player. They do those things because that was what was available for heir talents and their circumstances at that time. But do we pity them? No, because that's lif-” LifeCareersSurvivalProstitutionSex Work Book:Sweet Medicine Source: Sweet Medicine