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

“Even as you’re telling the world you don’t need a thing, you can never forget there are certain people who you are always going to need on your side. Don’t try to run the game on them. Always have a select few you remain honest and humble with.”
― 50 Cent, Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

“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

“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