Raquel

“There will always be people within movements that you do not like. There will always be actions that people within movements take that you will not agree with. And you certainly do not have to blindly follow a movement just because you believe in the cause—in fact, it’s very important that you always keep your eyes open and stay true to your morals.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“When I’d advocated for him to take classes and be in therapy, she mistook it as a nurturing passivity, gentle absolution. What I meant was take note of his mental health, because in my experience, when men were upset, lonely, or neglected, we were killed.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“In many cases, we actually work very hard to ensure that we go nowhere. Change is about noticing what’s no longer working and stepping out of the familiar, imprisoning patterns”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible