#bout

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#been #being #had #i #me

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#all night #code #computer #computer science #glasses

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

#conventional #doing #filming #forget #muppet

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#his #into #inviting #letters #life

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#distasteful #me #money #people #speak

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #illusion #life #like #nothing

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#childhood #ease #forgotten #joy #like

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#been #business #forever #men #our

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#backwards #course #evolutionary #existence #go