7 Quotes & Sayings By Anne Elizabeth Moore

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, The Demonologist, which was a "New York Times Notable Book of the Year" and was named one of the most notable works of 2009 by Library Journal. Her writing has also appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, Slate.com, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Cosmopolitan.com, among others. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and their two children.

Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very...
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Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since. Anne Elizabeth Moore
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Scientists are aware that all the lab-rat tests in the world, once compiled, can tell us only how lab rats act when tested, and that is how we must begin to view school: all that you can learn in a school classroom is what goes on inside a school classroom. Anne Elizabeth Moore
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Unfortunately, what anti-human trafficking NGOs [non-governmental organizations] really do is instead quite damaging: they normalize existent labor opportunities for women, no matter how low the pay, dangerous the conditions, or abusive an environment they foster. And they shame women who reject such jobs. Anne Elizabeth Moore
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It's important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available. Anne Elizabeth Moore
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[T]he dozen or so items I wished to return to XXI Forever could only be traded in, and the store had a strict BOGO policy: Buy One, Get One (Free). This means that the 12 items I had but did not need could only be returned by trading them in for 24 different, new items; I tried, of course, to eschew that "one free" I didn't need. Not allowed. (Everyone I knew got glittery spangles as holiday gifts that year.) The garment industry, it seems, is now inventing new ways to give this stuff away. . Anne Elizabeth Moore
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What we're left with .. is the distinctly uncomfortable sense that much of what we call culture jamming achieves the same effect as traditional marketing. Both rely on the bedrock principle that branding works. Yet marketing has moved on from branding toward a more direct emotional connection to our reptilian brains, which makes it immune to the cognitive dissonance culture jamming creates. In the meantime, the brans being promoted by some activists retain the full integrity of their original message, . Anne Elizabeth Moore