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Isn’t part of the human experience admitting your mistakes?” “Human but not female.”
Women in politics didn’t have the luxury of ending their sentences on an upswing, as if they were asking permission, as if they couldn’t find the answers themselves, as if they were waiting for someone to guide them. Actually, Cleo thought, women everywhere couldn’t afford this.
“Don’t apologize for anything if you’re not responsible for the problem.”
People should be allowed their secrets. People should be allowed their scars.
Women couldn’t fuck up the way that men could. They were held to a higher standard, as if making mistakes weren’t part of the human experience.
Women who were constantly apologizing were at a disadvantage in any negotiation and, of course, taken less seriously, because who wants advice or counsel from someone who is sorry before they’ve even convinced you of anything?
No one knew how to be a great mother in all ways on instinct.
