20 Quotes by Leah Hager Cohen

The truth beyond the fetish’s glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.

The occasion’s enormity: The birth of a friendship being no less momentous than the instant of falling in love.