Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings —always darker, emptier, simpler.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Such is life...

I became paralyzed during the writing of my senior thesis, convinced that my fraudulence was about to be unmasked. Back then, I went to my adviser and told her of the fears that were choking me. ‘You feel like an impostor?’ she asked. ‘Don’t worry about it. All smart women feel that way.’

Peggy Orenstein