Cyndy

“The death of self-esteem can occur quickly, easily in children, before their ego has “legs,” so to speak. Couple the vulnerability of youth with indifferent parents, dismissive adults, and a world, which, in its language, laws, and images, re-enforces despair, and the journey to destruction is sealed.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated—hated for things we have no control over and cannot change.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave.”
― Lisa Scottoline , Every Fifteen Minutes

“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
― Rita Mae Brown