Daivvonic

“True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear, but going beyond fear.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

“I was too smart and that made people uncomfortable--most folks where we've lived our whole lives don't trust too much intelligence in a woman. There is also the problem of my eyes--they don't hide anything. If I don't care for a person, my eyes make it plain. I don't care for most. Folks are generally comfortable with the small lies they tell each other. They don't know what to do with someone like me, who mostly doesn't bother with small lies.”
― Roxane Gay, Difficult Women

“The most powerful person in the room is the one with the least to hide.”
― Rick Julian

“It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I’d look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.”
― Sabrina Chapadjiev, Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction