“I apologise for everything…As a woman, I’ve apologised my whole life.”

—  Lisa Taddeo

Source: On feeling the need to be apologetic in “Lisa Taddeo on her bestseller Three Women: 'I thought I was writing a quiet little book'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/06/lisa-taddeo-interview-three-women in The Guardian (2019 Dec 6)

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