“Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.”
Source: White Oleander
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Janet Fitch 86
American writer 1955Related quotes

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”
“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

Part 1, Chapter 13; sometimes paraphrased: "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
“I’d never known that
anyone could kiss in English, kiss in apologies.”
Source: Embrace the Night

The Man Upstairs (1914)
Source: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories