You Think It, I'll Say It

by Curtis Sittenfeld

“I just wish that there was someone who was excited about me. Or that when someone was excited about me, I wish I hadn’t taken it for granted. I didn’t understand that that would be the only time.”

I learned an important lesson from all that, which was to be my own advocate and if I came off as immodest, so be it. And you have to figure that out at some point. Or at least if you’re a woman, you do, or not a white man.