Mollie Dunn
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Mollie Dunn
Through all of these events various people pushed me to move faster. I was routinely asked when I was going to make up my mind. And I was told that I didn’t have forever to figure things out. These same people were always surprised when I made a firm decision on something big that seemed to come out of nowhere.
Lauren Sapala • The INFJ Writer
People high in emotional OE are sometimes accused of ‘overreacting’, and their intensity is often misunderstood as a sign of emotional immaturity. Their compassion and concern for others, their focus on relationships, and the intensity of their feelings may also interfere with everyday tasks and hold them back from achieving in life (Piechowski and
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LSU Scholarly Repository
repository.lsu.eduParticipants indicated that in general, they think female superiors are more critical of other women than of men, and their responses show that critical feedback from female superiors is taken more personally than from male superiors
It particularly feels like a trap when a woman has worked hard to achieve excellence in her field only to have to either “do lunch” badly or else refuse these social occasions and be thought of as a snob or a little weird.
Sari Solden • Women With Attention Deficit Disorder
The argument is that if writers can’t force themselves to grow this thick skin, then they’re not cut out to be writers. This is blatantly false. Most of the highly creative writers on this planet, living and dead, are Sensitive Intuitives and Sensitive Intuitives are so extremely attuned to emotional energy that harsh, aggressive, competitive
... See moreLauren Sapala • The INFJ Writer
Stalk your greatest desire. When you find it, let all of your lesser desires be transformed so that they serve the greatest one.
Luke Burgis • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Women refuse to disagree directly
A fascinating aspect of feminine social norms: disagreement may never happen directly. And this is true of feminists or not. Feminism didn’t actually fix any of the stifling social norms we have to deal with daily. If disagreement must be expressed, it must be in the form of a hedging statement to not be too
... See moreAs an adult, you may have trouble feeling safe in relationships, due to the early betrayal of trust in your family. You may intellectually understand that you are not the cause of problems in your family, but to shift the internalized shame requires deeper emotional healing.