Charlene Wang > Quotes

“That’s the problem with youth: You’re so busy thinking your secrets will undo you, you can’t see that everybody’s got them.”
― Charlene Wang, I'll Follow You

“Everything I bring into my home has to pass a test: Is it beautiful or interesting?”
― Charlene Wang, I'll Follow You

“Sometimes in friendships, there is nothing kinder than silence.”
― Charlene Wang, I'll Follow You

“Why is it that a man in this country can sexually assault a woman and then offer her $$$ in exchange for her contractual silence and that transaction is legally binding and enforceable in a court of law? But if the victim offers her silence to her abuser in exchange for $$$ that is blackmail”
― Charlene Wang, I'll Follow You

“Maybe when we talk about risk, what we really are talking about is fairness.”
― Charlene Wang, I'll Follow You

“self-consciousness in taking up space.”
― Charlene Wang, I'll Follow You

“that transaction is legally binding and enforceable in a court of law? But if the victim offers her silence to her abuser in exchange for $$$ that is blackmail, a felony punishable up to 25 years in prison?”
― Charlene Wang, I'll Follow You

“Women in the public eye had to reinvent themselves—over and over. They had to have a blond era and a brunette one, a good-girl origin story and a slutty phase and a redemption arc, all before they hit the age of thirty.”
― Charlene Wang, I'll Follow You

“Promises, after all, are just stories—stories of how we see ourselves, stories of how we think the future should unfold.”
― Charlene Wang, I'll Follow You