Erika

“What keeps the pay gap in existence is not just the entitlement and complicity of men. It’s the gratitude of women. Our gratitude is how power uses the tokenism of a few women to keep the rest of us in line.”
― Abby Wambach, WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

“When I was a child, I felt what I needed to feel and I followed my gut and I planned only from my imagination. I was wild until I was tamed by shame. Until I started hiding and numbing my feelings for fear of being too much. Until I started deferring to others’ advice instead of trusting my own intuition. Until I became convinced that my imagination was ridiculous and my desires were selfish. Until I surrendered myself to the cages of others’ expectations, cultural mandates, and institutional allegiances. Until I buried who I was in order to become what I should be. I lost myself when I learned how to please.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Am I allowed to read books like these? Aren’t they banned?” “Technically, yes, but books shouldn’t be banned. Ignorance should not be a goal.”
― M. Hendrix, The Chaperone

“The Jewish philosopher Spinoza said that God did not necessarily make the universe”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere