“I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money. It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere.I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be...”
![“[Women] are conditioned to ever prove ourselves, as if our value is contingent on our ability to meet the expectations of others. As if our worth is a tank forever draining that we must fill and fill. We complete tasks and in some half-buried way believe that if we don’t, we will be discredited…” quote by Melissa Febos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b31/melissa-febos-7449_art_women-are-conditioned-to-ever-prove-ours_3037262.jpg)
