Daivvonic

“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

“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

“The only way you can light other people on fire is to be lit yourself, from the inside.”
― Tim S. Grover, Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

“I have danced too deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine.”
― Nikki Rowe