Opening Belle Quotes

“You don’t get ahead with disparaging remarks, so we never say what we really think, we say what our bosses want to hear and accomplish big, capitalistic things at great human cost.”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“I don’t confide in anyone I work with. This conversation catches me off guard. I try to think. What is she really up to?”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“A helper is someone who does favors for you, someone you have to thank all the time. A partner is someone who's in it with you.”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“had loved this man so much and with everything I had but we had split and grown and formed new branches and we had to nurture those now, not something we gave up on long ago.”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“was thinking about us doing business together, about this apartment, how you had turned into such a big shot that you had probably changed and what if you weren’t the Belle I remembered? But then you dropped your earring on your plate and your hose was torn and you seemed so clumsy and adorable and it reminded me that you’re so capable and so vulnerable all at the same time.”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“Nobody can succeed in these jobs without some ice chips in her veins. Your emotional lovelies weigh on you. Be free of them and any other baggage and you’ll find happiness.” I”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“What you should be concerned with is hanging out with those women. They’re so non-contributing and they’re not at your level. They’re sucking energy from you and you should distance yourself. They’re giving you a bad reputation and you’re not like them.” I”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“I think of my current life and how different and grown-up I’ve become since my time with Henry. Our life together was something I once saw in a movie. I think I liked the movie for the most part, but it’s faded from memory, with only the highlights and lowlights still on the reel. The highs and lows have narrowed in their intensity so much, becoming less and less discernible, moving toward each other until the whole memory will mercifully flatline with the passage of time.”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“And when you were more junior than you are today and men spoke shit to you, what did you do?” “It bothered me less than it bothers most women. My skin is thicker.” “Why is your skin thicker?” I think about that. “I had an awesome dad, which I think is a nice vaccination for life. It also didn’t hurt to not be rich. When you’re scrabbling upward, the big picture is clearer. I didn’t get sidetracked by bullshit.”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“Somewhere in the future, you may reach to remember something in your current everyday. You know there will be a final time you walk your daughter to school, or have the body that can nimbly ride a bike, or comfortably wear a bikini. Most things aren’t there for us as long as we think they will be.”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“It’s because they never had to work and when they realized that life is more fulfilling if you do work they felt too old to start at the bottom and too proud to take a regular, schlumpy job, so they make up their own job that nobody competes against. They get to be really good at something and not as boring to hang out with as they would be if they had no job at all. Ask your friend Elizabeth. The start-up world is full of these people.” Months”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“I do not forget anything. I just can’t get to everything the exact moment the world says I have to. By”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“This isn’t a dress. This is art. This dress is an elixir of the sort I’ve been too practical to drink, yet now seem to want.”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“I happened to work in the place that cared more about performance than degrees. Our chairman wanted employees he called “poor, smart, and determined to get rich,”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“When I want to clean my slates, I do it with bleach.”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“But you aren’t succeeding because you mouth off too much. Flipping birds back at management is costly. We all need to work within this culture to change this culture.” Violette”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“Humiliation takes my relatively thick skin and morphs it into full-grain leather,”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle

“Steps from the entrance I instinctively pause, summoning a more impressive version of me, trying to get her to show up tonight.”
― Maureen Sherry, Opening Belle