Shreeda

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
― Rollo May, Love and Will

“Most martyr stories – sacred and profane – contain an element of superiority. This self-denying hero or heroine is "rewarded," at the very least, by capturing the admiring focus of the narrative, while everyone else recedes into the background.”
― Maureen Corrigan

“I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity