Embarrassment Quote by Michelle Orange

“We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything.”

— Courtney E. Martin

“I was young enough to think that insecurity disappeared with maturity.”

— Amanda Knox

“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…

— Ayn Rand

“The really terrible thing about being young is the triviality”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Her expression was that of a woman with multiple children who was no longer surprised by anything they did, up to and including arriving…

— Gail Carriger

“What goes unsaid is that women might be more ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice. We’ve had to fight to vote,…

— Roxane Gay

“The women I loved most in the world horrified me. I did not want to grow up to be them.”

— Dorothy Allison

“It was not that the woman boasted. Quite the opposite. She was modest to a fault, the fault being she insinuated her modesty, deftly,…

— Cathleen Schine

“At the time, I must have been in my late twenties, a young man at the prime of his desires for a woman’s company.…

— Khaled Hosseini

“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and…

— Terry Pratchett

“I was an at-risk youth. I was in danger of becoming an adult.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I’m talking about the soul-crushing drudgery of day-to-day parenthood that we’re too embarrassed to talk about. The boredom, the stress, the nagging dissatisfaction, and…

— Jessica Valenti