MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure?
TINA FEYIf you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace, here they are. No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly.
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You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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Lesson learned? When people say, “You really, really must” do something, it means you don’t really have to. No one ever says, “You really, really must deliver the baby during labor.” When it’s true, it doesn’t need to be said.
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In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history’s worst decisions […].
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I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.
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If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
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Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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Seriously, I’ve just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.
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People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States – and elsewhere.
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In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don’t worry, lonely women, you’ll be dead soon.
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