We teach girls to shrink themselves. To make themselves smaller.

She didn't want to speak up because she didn't want to seem aggressive. She let her resentments simmer.

"If you are a woman, you are not supposed to express anger."

Chapter one: Paris is a Bitch

"The older one gets, the more it becomes clear that it is a great mistake not to have been brilliant when very young." -- from the introduction, by Joseph Epstein

Philosophy asks us to move into courage.