Please note:This audiobook has been generated using AI Voice. This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The world wants us to choose whether we want to be small, quiet, and uncomplicated or big, loud, and complicated. But what they donât realize is that every girl has to make this choice: whether to be true to themselves or be true to the world.
#2 I am four years old and my father is a football coach at our neighborhood high school. On game night, my mother bundles me up in a fluffy coat, earmuffs, and mittens. When sheâs done, she kneels in front of me and admires her work. She is pleased.
#3 I was always aware of my beauty, and I tried to be generous with it. But I understood that smart was more complicated than beautiful. I learned that people were attracted to me but repelled by my confidence. I began to understand that beauty warms people and smart cools them.
#4 Iâm ten years old and Iâm trying to disappear into the corner of the velour couch in my grandmotherâs living room. My cousins chase each other from room to room, a tornado of squeals and skin. Iâm not a fish. Iâm heavy and solitary and separate, like a whale.