People Like Her Quotes

“Sorry, the Sisterhood, but when it comes to online life, mothers just don’t respond well to other mothers’ success – if comparison is the thief of joy, Instagram is the cat burglar of contentment.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“I found that the more "authentic" I was, the more followers I won, and the more those followers "liked" me. If that sounds patronizing, I honestly don't mean it that way. Sorry, the Sisterhood, but when it comes to online life, women just don't respond well to other women's success-if comparison is the thief of joy, Instagram is the cat burglar of contentment.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“The American philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt famously differentiates between lies and bullshit. Lies, he claims, are untruths deliberately intended to deceive. Bullshit, on the other hand, comes about when someone has no real interest in whether or not something they are saying is true or false at all.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“It can really rob you of your faith in the human spirit, sometimes, the internet.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“when it comes to online life, women just don’t respond well to other women’s success—if comparison is the thief of joy, Instagram is the cat burglar of contentment.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“It means worrying. It means caring. It means constantly walking a fine line between joy and terror. It means constantly asking yourself whether you are making the right decisions, and for whose benefit you are really making them. It means being a parent all day every day and all night too, no matter where you are or what else you have going on.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“You make a series of small decisions in your twenties, and they slowly bind you until they become a straitjacket.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“Kierkegaardian concept of ressentiment, as popularized and expanded by Nietzsche.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“All your stories were too pat, too polished, she said. That’s because they’re just words, aren’t they, to you? Just content—isn’t that what you people call it? Nothing has any meaning anymore, unless it’s public, unless it’s out there for other people to read about. You’re not a person anymore, Emmy. You’re just a phony caption and a posed photo. A fucking invention. I hope this is a wake-up call.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“ingenuous”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“The indisputable fact that when a man does even the very basics of childcare, however awkwardly, ineptly, or begrudgingly, he gets applauded for it. Whereas when a woman walks down”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“Twitter was for sniping and snark; Instagram was a friendly space for pretty pictures and smiley faces.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“Lies, he claims, are untruths deliberately intended to deceive. Bullshit, on the other hand, comes about when someone has no real interest in whether or not something they are saying is true or false at all. Example:”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“Was he crossing his fingers behind his back when he promised to be with my mother for richer and poorer, till death do us part? I doubt he’d see it like that. He was just doing what I’d watched him do time and time again: saying what he knew the person he was with wanted to hear. Better to lie and be liked than be hated for telling the truth—that’s his general approach to life. He’s a shape-shifter, my father. A people pleaser. Until he gets caught out. Able to be anything anyone needs him to be. Apart from a decent dad or husband.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“Inasmuch as it is based on a complete rejection of the significance of the truth and the moral duty we owe to it, Harry G. Frankfurt suggests that bullshit is actually more corrosive, a more destructive social force, than good old-fashioned lying. Harry G. Frankfurt has considerably fewer followers on Instagram than my wife does.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“That ultimately, all mamas are not superheroes. That becoming a mum doesn’t automatically confer sainthood if you were a dick before you pushed a baby out of your bits. That ultimately, all mothers are still just people. Some of us are kind and gentle and endlessly giving. Others, resentful and frustrated and increasingly convinced they’ve made a terrible mistake. Some will be getting through each day and doing their best, while others just go through the motions waiting for the 7.30 p.m. gin and tonic. There will be some mums out there who thought they were going to hate it and have surprised themselves, and others who thought they’d love it and simply don’t. Some of us are wonderful. Some of us are wankers. Most of us are a mixture of all these things on any given day.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“I've honed my approach overtime to make sure I don't stoke the hater's rage. I am sure these are often women broken with grief for their old lives, powder kegs packed with fury at the terrible injustice of motherhood. They explode at me-not their husbands, not their health visitors, not the friends who inquire politely how they're doing with a newborn but don't really want to know the answer-because it doesn't matter if I know that they're not coping.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“verisimilitude.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her