Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”

Susan Cain
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Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same. ✨ Susan Cain (2012). Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, p.6, Broadway Books
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