No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.
Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.
Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.
I think a certain kind of sexism is so matter-of-fact, and has been for so long, that young women feel less valuable or second-tier if their gender and attractiveness or sexual desirability are not being commented on in the workplace.
Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.
In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.
Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's anything to publicize.
I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.
There is a power within you that will free you!
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.