We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable.


“You have to care at least a little to yell at someone, and he has to care about you at least a little to yell back.”
― Little Secrets
― Little Secrets

“That was one reason why we always thought so much about being in the window. Each of us had been promised our turn, and each of us longed for it to come.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun

“if you are the soul of kindness and amiability, then the world must be a very dangerous place.”
― Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1
― Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1

“They accept that your decisions, your recommendations, are sound and dependable, almost always correct. But they don’t like not knowing how you arrive at them. That’s where it comes from, this backlash, this prejudice.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun

“At the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom,”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
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