Val

“When the people you love are gone, it’s the things they’ve touched that keep them alive in your mind. A picture, a shirt, a poem, a pair of baby shoes. They become anchors that help you keep their memory from drifting away.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“If the reward for being the “coolest” girl in the room is a sliver of attention from the world’s most mediocre men, then I would happily commit to never being chill. And never being cool. But maybe the “cool girls” got one thing right after all: I wouldn’t be like the other girls—I was going to be much, much worse.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“But the truth is, I’ve never felt good about myself,” I say, “no matter who I’m with. The truth is I feel like shit about myself all the time.”
― Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

“Support from women is a gift. It’s a resource in which you can find not only community, but empowerment. It’s a place you go to recharge and remind yourself that you are loved, important, and valid in this world. That’s what it always has been for me, and that’s what I always want it to be for all of you.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve