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“Should I remain this shadow — my mother, all our female ancestors — or should I let her go?”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I read once that women are more likely than men to cry when they are angry. I know that women cry out of shame. We are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way that it transforms us. We cry to quell what we feel, even when it's trying to tell us something, even when it has every right to exist.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body