“She did not understand why a woman’s accomplishment had to come at the price of a man’s worth—as if there were a finite amount of success in the universe, as if letting another into that sacred space meant someone already there would be evicted.”
― By Any Other Name
― By Any Other Name
“Does letting go mean losing everything you have, or does it mean gaining everything you never had?”
― The Paper Palace
― The Paper Palace
“It does not matter what you see when you look at me, because you will never know me the way I know myself. And even if I am the only person in the world with that knowledge, it does not make it any less real.”
― By Any Other Name
― By Any Other Name
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