Everybody Else Is Perfect Quotes

“I was well aware that I had major, intensely physical crushes on girls... but it felt totally separate from who I was, a subtext that I didn't realize informed the plot.”
― Gabrielle Korn

“But really, according to the feedback I got from the world at large, I'd been too young for every single step of my career except when I was an assistance in my early twenties... I don't think that men face this challenge; what I've observed is that men in my industry who get ahead early are called trailblazers, while women who get ahead early are simply not taken seriously. The messaging is confusing: we're repeatedly told we should want to look young... But if we do look young, and furthermore, if we are young, we're treated like we don't know anything. For a culture that is so preoccupied with maintaining female youth, we certainly have quite a few parameters around what kind of power that youth is allowed to access.”
― Gabrielle Korn

“under patriarchy whiteness is read as a neutral identity, as is heterosexuality and skinniness...”
― Gabrielle Korn

“I've also learned that culturally there's no "right" way to be an ambitious women. We don't have a lot of models for young female leadership, and many people's first instinct is to be suspicious of that kind of drive. I've never heard about any of my male coworkers being called entitled when asking for more money. I think if anything it probably gains them respect.”
― Gabrielle Korn