Whisper Network

by Chandler Baker

(We had stopped buying the success-isn’t-synonymous-with-money line years ago when we realized how much less money we were making and, by extension, how much less success. We’d learned the hard way that money predicated success, not the other way around. Money was options. Money was the ability to take risks. To jump to the next level. Money can’t buy everything, we’d always been told. Money can’t buy time. To which we called B.S. We had the Care.com and Instacart accounts to prove it. Money was what we were after.)

Yes yes yes yes yes.

“Sometimes I think I’m cursed,” Katherine was saying to the version of herself—whatever that was—that she saw in the mirror. “It’s like the universe can sense I’m supposed to be working in some factory or flipping hamburgers back in Boston and wants to set the balance right.”

The imposter syndrome professional women know so well.

Women walked around the world in constant fear of violence; men’s greatest fear was ridicule.

Brilliant.