"Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God."

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We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable.

— Walter Kirn