The Truth About Us Quotes

“We find out early that telling the whole truth makes people uncomfortable and is certainly not ladylike or likely to make us popular, so we learn to lie sweetly so that we can be loved. And when we figure out this system, we are split in two: the public self, who says the right things in order to belong, and the secret self, who thinks other things.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed