Your life belongs to you and you alone.

All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.

Stories matter. Many stories matter.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.

Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.