“I always get asked, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’….I think people are well meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, ‘You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like you’re worth anything?'”

-Mindy Kaling, speaking to Parade Magazine

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