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I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. —Calamity Jane
She did know actually—because in today’s environment, lurid half-truths garnered eyeballs, and no one really cared to differentiate between fact and fiction when they hit Retweet.
“But you admitted that you’ve made mistakes. Men can do that. Women, not so much.”
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.
As mulheres não podem ter dúvidas medos ou receios. Aliás é maior a lista de coisas que uma mulher não pode fazer que o seu contrário.
“Don’t apologize for anything if you’re not responsible for the problem.”
Being elite in intellect or even elite with power wasn’t the same thing as being elite with wealth,
You get what you get. You do what you have to do. You stop crying. You stop sleeping. You turn yourself into someone to be reckoned with. You become a straight line, and then you become an arrow.
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?
Almost inevitably when you glossed over difficult truths, it meant that you got their votes but eventually lost their trust,
