Atmosphere

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

So it came as a huge shock to the men in the department, many of whom fancied themselves secretly destined for victory, to see that the woman they’d overlooked was lapping them in a race they did not know had started.

The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it.

I’m done pretending sexist jokes are funny just so men will give me a chance at something I’m probably better at than they are.”