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Sometimes I feel like society conspires against my quest to find mad women.It tells them to smile more, and so they recede from the spotlight."it seems a man can be as rude as he likes, crude as he lies, lewd as he likes to..."https://t.co/Gek2usl1Cz https://t.co/5xOPexovN4
My entire childhood is riddled with the metaphoric corpses of smart women pushed out of the fields. Ignored or shamed, or undermined. The only women I know IRL in computer science is my sister. She's my hero. The only person in my family who's succeeded.
As most of my friends growing up were female, and yet maybe two of them I know are in STEM, I have to say I think something is going wrong with the world.https://t.co/O5QNAjnE3L
“The division of work depends on cultural norms, and we call them norms because they seem normal — so normal that many of us don’t notice the assumptions we’re making.” https://t.co/FWpTgdD4tkI notice.https://t.co/olrez0iojt
Society wants you to fail.And you're probably going to fail.Find people who help you to life yourself up off the ground and dust yourself off.Its ok to fail.https://t.co/tu1buwyhOr
Everytime you break is a chance to build yourself anew.Stronger, weaker? It doesn't matter. Just keep building the future.https://t.co/i4NJ0mbsqf
Pain your face with makeup.Pain your face with war paint.Pain your face to hide your scars,Pain your face to hide your tears.https://t.co/QOlpAfqa8l
Scream if you must.Battle.cry.https://t.co/zLDPM7w1PZ
Breaking the myths that bind us to suffering.https://t.co/4mmuCIMUq4