Joy ✨

“That means you’ve got what it takes, Frank. We all went through it. Nurses back in the world are second-class citizens. And, big surprise—they’re mostly women. Men keep us in boxes, make us wear starched virgin white, and tell us that docs are gods. And the worst part is, we believe them.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“People come through that door to heal. That’s all. To heal.”
“Is that why you think I’m here?”
“Why else would you? They’re gone. Now you got no excuses for who you can be. So who you gonna be? Same as you were? Or everything you would’ve been otherwise?”
― Cebo Campbell

“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― Percival Everett, James

“Thank God for girlfriends. In this crazy, chaotic, divided world that was run by men, you could count on the women.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women