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“I was always a good girl. I was a straight-A student, top of my class. I did as I was told. I was polite to my elders. I was good to my siblings. I went to church. It was very easy to hide how very...”
“I don’t put that pressure on myself (to write every day), but I do tend to write every day. It’s not pressure—it’s pressure release.”
“The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.”
“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.”
“We must stop pointing to the exceptions—these bright shining stars who transcend circumstance. We must look to how we can best support the least among us, not spend all our time blindly revering an...”
“I'm tired of feeling like I should be grateful when popular culture deigns to acknowledge the experiences of people who are not white, middle class or wealthy, and heterosexual.”
“Assuming Sandberg's advice is completely useless for working-class women is just as shortsighted as claiming her advice needs to be completely applicable to all women. And let’s be frank: if Sandbe...”
