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21 " And in response Ardie just pinched her lips together and felt an uncharacteristic squeeze on her heart, because they would never see themselves the same as they saw each other and that was a gift. "
― Chandler Baker , Whisper Network
22 " But criticism on an individual scale diverts focus from the critique of entrenched gender norms that still haunt our culture today. "
― Chandler Baker , The Husbands
23 " I think I have an idea,” says the second woman. “I believe you’ve come to value yourself based on your ability to perform. Maybe you even place value on the martyrdom of performance. "
24 " we’d heard that those who lived in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. But no one had told us anything about how to conduct ourselves within the display cases of crystal conference rooms and buildings constructed out of thousands of soulless glass eyes. "
25 " Listen "
26 " He turned, his eyebrows jacking up in surprise. The creases in his forehead had deepened over the years. (While we needed nips and tucks and filler injections to stay relevant, they needed only to age to become more dignified. Don’t think we didn’t notice.) "
27 " Ardie wondered if something was wrong with her. Some actual diagnosis. A personality disorder. Something more concrete than just: natural introvert. But, well, to find out, she’d actually have to talk to someone she hardly knew for an extended time period, which was out of the question. "
28 " She thought it was good to put a label on it. It was like a diagnosis. Everyone had to support you once you got one of those or else risk being a ghastly, selfish person with a bias against mental health issues. "
29 " It wasn’t only the warning that kept us safe but our ability to keep that warning quiet. Like secret agents operating behind enemy lines, we couldn’t afford to get caught. And yet we risked it anyway. With voices hushed, we reached out to each other to offer our knowledge. We tried. Because we’d always wanted the best for each of our friends. We wanted her to dump that loser. We wanted her to stop worrying about losing five pounds. We wanted to tell her she looked great in that dress and that she should definitely buy it. We wanted her to crush the interview. We wanted her to text us when she got home. We wanted her to see what we saw: someone smart and brave and funny and worthy of love and success and peace. We wanted to kill whoever got in her way. "
30 " I think I like the sound of that. "
― Chandler Baker , This Is Not the End
31 " They tought they saw directy trough us. They tought they know us. They thought they could anticipate our movements. "
32 " We would think about this moment a few months later and ask ourselves many questions. We were going to look for signs. And we were going to find them. "
33 " Maybe the indiscretion was a biological adaptation. Survival of the best informed. "
34 " We wanted to be treated just like men, at work, for the same reason that people buy smart phones: to make our lives easyer. "
35 " Women went around the world always fearing violence; men's greatest fear was ridiculouseness. "
36 " We have been programed to work with secrets. "
37 " What holds you here?" I finally ask, almost too low to hear."Right now?" His head rolls to the side and he stares at me as if he can see all the way through me to the other side.He says simply: "I guess it's you. "
― Chandler Baker , Alive
38 " One of the best things about Ardie was that she could be just a little bit mean exactly when Sloane needed her to be. Sloane’s most closely held tenet was that women could not be real friends unless they were willing to talk shit together. "
39 " This restaurant had a thing and that thing was plants. Vines cascaded from terra-cotta pots; succulents topped reclaimed wood shelves; miniature white orchids sprouted from handmade ceramic mugs centered on the tables. It was where Pinterest came to vomit, trading in the sort of motif that seemed so effortless and natural that it had to be attainable, only it absolutely was not and Sloane lived for it. "
40 " Maybe it's not that if you work hard you always get ahead, it's just that if you don't give up, don't give in, then things still have the chance of working out some way or another. Maybe you just have to still be hanging around when luck shows up "
― Chandler Baker
