Emily

“It’s not a lack of confidence in oneself preventing people from going after jobs where they don’t meet all of the qualifications, but a lack of confidence in other people’s abilities to view them as capable of doing the job, and therefore hiring them,” said the leadership expert, who had surveyed one thousand people to come to this conclusion. “The main barrier is not a mistaken perception about themselves, but a mistaken perception of what is a real requirement or rule, of how processes like these truly work, and this is especially a problem for women.”
― Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction

“Wrecks have been raised from the ocean bed with less effort, but I hobble toward the cascade of costumes shrouding my quarry.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Jasmine and I look at each other, like, is she serious? Then Jasmine conveys to me, with a flutter of her eyelids, what do you expect, she’s not like us. Yes, sometimes we are this good at understanding one another. When our similarities align in a sort of power.”
― Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction

“People will compete and never relax and always try to innovate and achieve until they are so high-strung that the world collapses.”
― Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction