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21 " Ask your five closest friends and family to name one thing they love about you. Write them down on a piece of paper or Post-it note and put it somewhere private, like inside your wallet. These are the things that are true. And keeping them close to you means you do not need to hunt for validation elsewhere. "
― Emma Gannon , Sabotage
22 " Stop yourself if you’re about to sabotage a compliment. Repeat the person’s words in your head and take them in. Even if you don’t believe them in the moment, by accepting them and not bagging them away, you are retraining your brain to start believing them. "
23 " I am not here to win, I am here to contribute.” - Seth Godin "
― Emma Gannon
24 " Society rewards couples so much. Life is just so much easier in a couple. Cheaper, easier, more logical...I glare at the couple in the seats next to me...I actually can't believe I was one of those smug couples for so long. "
― Emma Gannon , Olive
25 " I am telling you that the longer you look into that magical window in your phone, the farther you will drift from the heart of who you are.” —Heather Havrilesky, the Cut’s “Ask Polly "
― Emma Gannon , The Multi-Hyphen Method: Work less, create more, and design a career that works for you
26 " I just want everyone in this room to remember to look deep inside and know sometimes we don’t have to stifle ourselves with the pressure. We don’t have to build up this huge unanswerable question in our heads: Do I Want Kids? It hangs over us, but why? Sometimes we can just roll with it, make smaller natural decisions as we go along and follow what makes us happy daily, and in doing so we will make the right decision for us in the end, without turning it into something so pressurized. Do you know what I mean? "
27 " There is something so wonderfully complex about labelling someone a ‘best friend’. It is leaps ahead of ‘friend’, who is just someone you like a bit without a special kind of bond tying you together like you are white-water rafting through life with each other. It’s a commitment, for starters, but one that you can’t ever imagine not being part of. You fall quite romantically for each other and think: ‘Yep, you. You will soon become an extension of my personality; I will finish your sentences and you will know all my most awful secrets, and therefore hold all the power over me for ever more. And, oh balls, I can never ever forget your birthday. "
― Emma Gannon , Ctrl, Alt; Delete: How I Grew Up Online
28 " when you turn thirty, you are suddenly gifted a new kind of respect for yourself. ‘You will care less, as if by magic, my dear, "
29 " It’s true that as you grow older, you know yourself better. You leave bad parties slightly earlier. "
30 " And then bam – even though I should have seen it coming – babies are suddenly on the brain. There is an abrupt tap on the shoulder from friends, family, society and suddenly it’s the number one topic of conversation. Babies. Babies. Babies. When. When. When. "
31 " When I am an adult, I would think, everything will be good. I will finally be free. Adulthood = Freedom. "
32 " You know what gets to me? The knowing, smug smirk that so often accompanies the words: “You’ll change your mind.”’ Kym, 35 "
33 " she hadn't chiselled the fact that she didn't want kids into stone; she cam to it naturally, gradually. It was just something that made sense for her as she lived her life. Sometimes we don't 'know' for sure, and maybe we never will, but we just have to live each day in the way that feels most natural to us. "
34 " Well, you must remember that no decision is ever really the wrong decision. Because it's the decision you made at the time. Respect your past self and her choices, "
35 " Ah, I´m not ready yet, sorry," I say. The story of my life. "
36 " and six-year-old Amelia wants to play her violin to us. No offence, Amelia, but you’re not very good. "
37 " Everybody with a womb doesn’t have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.’ Gloria Steinem, Chelsea Lately, October 2011 "
38 " Why wouldn’t he understand that being on the pill and off the pill and in between the pill all means I have an excuse to act totally loopy? "
39 " Respect your past self and her choices. "
40 " If we help ourselves, it’s one less thing to struggle against. We can be our own worst enemy, or our own best supporter. "