Breaking the Rules (The Dating Playbook #2)

by Mariah Dietz

“Being a girl sucks,” she says, a dry chuckle following her words. “There’s this impossible balance we’re all working to find: being tough without being too masculine, being smart without being arrogant, being kind without being a pushover, being beautiful without being prissy, being successful without being too informal. It’s this massive scale that is constantly in flux, and the joke is on us because everyone is judging us—constantly—and more often than not, we’re our own toughest critic.”