“Kids can always tell the difference between adults who want to empower them, and adults who want to overpower them.”
― Somebody's Daughter
― Somebody's Daughter
“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Educated
― Educated
“We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“I’d rather live in the streets than be a submissive Mexican wife who spends all day cooking and cleaning.”
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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