Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.’
Lena Dunham (via thatkindofwoman)
Oh my God. I do this all the time. I need to STOP. But it’s just second nature to question my skills and abilities, to doubt the compliments, to go ‘this is probably stupid, but…’. I needed this right now.