You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.
Phoebe Waller-BridgeRead
As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the conflicting messages that women receive about behavior and ambition.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge articulates the societal expectations placed on women to conform to standards of being 'good' and 'pretty,' which she contrasts with the notion that these traits do not lead to significant impact or change in the world. This duality reflects the ongoing struggle women face between societal pressures and the desire for agency and influence.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about gender roles during a women's empowerment seminar.
You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.
I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.
You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.
If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.
When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.
I feel liberated being around women who are liberated.
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
Deep meaning lies often in childish play.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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