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The truth: my career had been built around protecting male egos. This was the world I lived in. This was the world I knew, and I never believed this world could, or would, change. It seemed incomprehensible that the system could ever collapse. So I started trying out a new approach. I would change …

I already understood that David would always define the terms of your reality. That’s what he did, that’s who he was. And I also already understood that I could never be a woman who slid into a man’s premade life and claimed it as her own. I had a world. I had a job. It had taken a lot of work to a…

In high dudgeon, I stalked up toward the exit. Back to my point about how anger is a process and a choice.

I couldn’t have imagined that anyone had ever mentioned any sort of resemblance to the sex, lies, and videotape Spader, a louche vagrant who videotapes women talking about their sex lives, to David as praise.

There were plenty of things I couldn’t handle about my job, but they weren’t the ones David was thinking about then. The main thing: I’d believed that if I got this job, or even if I got any sort of power, that I wouldn’t be scared anymore. I had been hoping that power was the way to undo fear. But…