• We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

    Katha Pollitt: We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.
    Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage