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A nuisance that befalls many high-achieving women, wherein they chalk up their success to:
“…luck, to being in the right place at the right time, to factors other than ability. … They live in fear that eventually some significant person will discover that they are, indeed, intellectual impostors."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk: We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller / We say to girls, “You can have ambition / But not too much / You should aim to be successful / But not too successful / Otherwise you will threaten the man.” It’s true. Women are much more likely to feel this way, because we’re taught to be modest and self-deprecating, to downplay our achievements for fear of looking arrogant or ungrateful, sipping pickle juice while our male counterparts are being praised for being bossed up.
August 7, 2016