Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Young women are often pressured to be nice, but parenthood reveals their natural selfishness.
- In plain terms
- Girls are taught to be nice, but having kids shows they are often selfish.
- What can you take from it?
- Social expectations of niceness often mask true selfishness in women.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is being nice worth losing your authenticity?
- How do you reconcile niceness with selfishness?
Another view
It stereotypes women as inherently selfish.
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