Sheryl’s Reviews > Becoming > Status Update

2/2 “But it was delicate. If one corner came untucked, I might discover that I was restless. If another popped loose, it might reveal I was uncertain about the professional path I’d so deliberately put myself on, about all the things I told myself I wanted.”

“Until now, I’d constructed my existence carefully, tucking and folding every loose and disorderly bit of it as if building some tight and airless piece of origami. I had labored over its creation. I was proud of how it looked.” (1/2)

(Is this whole damn book quotable?!)

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”

On speaking like a “white girl:”

“America would bring to Barack Obama the same questions my cousin was unconsciously putting to me that day on the stoop: Are you what you appear to be? Do I trust you or not?”

(It’s harder to save quotes when reading a paper book ... have to do it the old fashioned way.)

“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”