Alice Simshauser

“Comparison is the crush of conformity from one side and competition from the other—it’s trying to simultaneously fit in and stand out. Comparison says, “Be like everyone else, but better.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“The children are not obeying you, they are only submitting to authority. They do not entertain the slightest thought of understanding you. They just cover their ears and shut their eyes and wait for the storm of your rage to pass.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“Vulnerability is not oversharing, it's sharing with people who have earned the right to hear our stories and our experiences.
Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience