Beverly

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf