“I recently took my niece to a doctor's appointment. She's 4. She was wearing a knee-length skirt (and was wearing shorts underneath) and playing on the ground with other kids in the kids section thing they have in some waiting rooms. This older woman comes by, taps her on the shoulder and sternly sa…”— ffreudiannipss, reddit.com
“I have an academic doctoral degree and was on a panel with two other people with the same qualifications. Both were male. They were introduced as "Dr. Smith" and "Dr. Jones" and I was introduced as "Feat" (in other words, they got the honorific associated with their credential, and I was referred to…”— FeatofClay, reddit.com
“When me and the SO were buying a new tv and on a separate occasion a laptop, I had a list of specs and things I wanted at minimum and things I didn't care for. The salesman kept speaking to my SO exclusively and trying to talk about the different products with him. Eventually I went off by myself to…”— Gennova666, reddit.com
“Women can't handle technology. I'm not an expert by any means, but whenever I have an IT issue I can't even finish explaining it before I'm dismissed by the tech guy. Most recently, my laptop charger broke. I went to the store, bought a new one, cost me 15e. My boyfriend has the exact same laptop, r…”— PurrPrinThom, reddit.com
“Is being a father more important to Keith Richards than being in the Rolling Stones? I have no idea; I didn’t even know he had children until three months ago.”— Laura June, nymag.com
“There is a common misunderstanding that emotions cause us to think illogically But recent scientific thinking, reviewed by psychologist Roy Baumeister and his colleagues, has placed emotion at the center of wisdom. One reason is that most emotion is felt after an event, which apparently serves to he…”— Elaine N. Aron, amazon.com
“I kind of hate the phrase ‘having it all,’ but I think you can have … You can have a lot. Not everything. But a lot. And so part of being able to do that is making the choices upfront about which of the pieces of the pie are the most important to you right now. There are other times in my life when…”— Kathryn Minshew, nymag.com
“I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.com
“The rape joke is that you were crazy for the next five years, and had to move cities, and had to move states, and whole days went down into the sinkhole of thinking about why it happened. Like you went to look at your backyard and suddenly it wasn’t there, and you were looking down into the center o…”— Patricia Lockwood, theawl.com
“Maybe women are so busy faking it — to be more like a man at work, more like a porn star in bed, more like 30 at 50 — that we don’t trust our natural responses anymore. Maybe all that wine is an Instagram filter for our own lives, so we don’t see how sallow and cracked they’ve become.”— Kristi Coulter, qz.com
“What’s a girl to do when a bunch of dudes have just told her, in front of an audience, that she’s wrong about what it’s like to be herself?”— Kristi Coulter, qz.com
“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.”— Roman Payne, amazon.com
“Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both "at one with" and "separate from" the outside world. These discoveries are as fundamental to the soul as "learning to survi…”— Roman Payne, amazon.com
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”— Roman Payne, amazon.com
“When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.”— Roman Payne, amazon.com
“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”— Roman Payne, amazon.com
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”— Roman Payne, amazon.com
“She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.”— John Green, instagram.com