Ineshia ♡

“As a woman, she’d had to work her ass off to get to where she was now, to be taken as seriously as her male coworkers. As a Black woman, even more so. She’d had to tolerate the pats on the butt, the dinner-and-drinks invitations, the blatant requests for sex. On more than one occasion, she’d had the door slammed in her face at a listing appointment or a showing because of the color of her skin. And she had never let it grind her down. If anything, it had made her all the more determined.”
― Lisa Gray, To Die For

“We don’t focus too much on what isn’t working out in our lives. We focus on what is, and there’s a lot to be grateful for.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“and one who went along because she, like so many other women, assumed that downgrading someone of her own sex would somehow lift her in the estimation of her male superiors.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“But it’s crazy what a little self-love will do. It will make you bet on yourself each time.”
― Ebony LaDelle, Love Radio