Brittany Michele

“I am becoming increasingly anxious the other girls might not like me because I am quiet. This has been a theme my whole life. I have been antisocial since puberty, preferring to watch others rather than participate.”
― Anna Marie Tendler, Men Have Called Her Crazy

“The problem with binary thinking isn't only that it shuts us off from each other personally, or that it allows the government to get away with corruption, but that it can shut us off from being open to solutions or help people just because of their political team. It's more than just the things we lose as individuals; we're also losing as a society by being hesitant to come together and hear each other out. If we did, if we could just realize that a political label or difference of opinion on one issue was no reason to discount a person on everything, we could solve so many of our problems-- or, at the very least, come together and agree to stop bowing the knee to the ruling class, which routinely abuses partisan loyalties and plays us against one another for the sake of gaining and maintaining its own power and control.
Of course, I understand that the politicians we elect do have an impact on our lives. But the preoccupation with partisan fighting distracts us from the fact that there's a much better approach to quelling these concerns.
To me, there is far too much focus on which specific people we will put into positions of power, and not enough focus on the amount of power that those positions have.
Put another way? we shouldn't have to freak out about what might happen if This Guy or That Guy got elected if the people we elected didn't have so much authority over us in the first place.”
― Kat Timpf, I Used to Like You Until...: How Binary Thinking Divides Us

“I'm forty-four and I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.”
― Liz Nugent, Strange Sally Diamond

“You need to tell yourself that you've got something that they don't; you didn't get their good looks, but you got some stuff they didn't, and now the arrow is pointing up on your qualities while their beauty slowly fades. You tell yourself this so you don't just feel like a genetic loser or a broken person. It's an awful trap. You're dehumanizing yourself and everyone else you meet You're balancing the numbers on some ledger of social values that you've created in your insecurity rather than, you know, actually getting to know people and see if you hit it off.”
― Ian Karmel, T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People