The questions we ask
and the language we use
have an impact on our confidence.
Zoe Saldana,
an actress in very male SciFi field,
shares
“My balls are pretty big.
There’s a confidence that
my sisters and I were raised with.
After my dad died,
my mom moved us from Queens
back to the Dominican Republic.
A very macho sort of place.
But my mom raised us to know
that we are equal to anyone.
Whenever we went out,
if we were meeting other people,
my mom would always say,
“I hope you like them.”
Not “I hope they like you.”
We were the most important.”
The next time you catch yourself asking
“Do they like me?”,
flip this to
“Do I like them?”