Val

“The secret to a beautiful death is living a beautiful life.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“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

“I’ve found that even the most well-intentioned and “woke” men still never seem to understand what domestic labor equity actually looks like. Like the men who take out the trash twice a week and put the toilet seat down maybe every third time they pee and think … what? That they deserve a fucking medal for doing the absolute bare minimum?”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“everything is an opportunity to learn. Don’t waste this opportunity.”
― Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage