Kate

“Not giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different. Let’s”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“We curse everything, for we are cursed, and we have no arms to shelter her and no lips to press to her hair and above all no words to tell her that we know loss and we know pain and if they were monsters we could fight we would have slain them in her name long ago like the heroes of old. But we are not a hero. We are cursed.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

“For women in particular, the first step is to believe that you deserve the right to set boundaries in the first place. Women are taught to be martyrs: to empty ourselves out in the service of others, forgetting about our own dreams, ambitions and desires and instead using our time and energy to fuel the people around us.”
― Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries and How to Set Them

“We can demonize the people who take, or we can own our stuff and recognize that the problem is not that they take, but that we are unable to say no.”
― Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries and How to Set Them