Neelmani

“Was I kind to others? It was hard to nail down an answer. I worried that if I did turn out to have a personality, it would be one of the unkind ones. Did I only worry about this question because as a woman I felt required to put the needs of others before my own? Was “kindness” just another term for submission in the face of conflict? These were the kind of things I wrote about in my diary as a teenager: as a feminist I have the right not to love anyone.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“May we all live in communities where every person’s truest Self is both held and free.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Mile after mile, all of it familiar, yet not, this distance that separates us, me from my mother.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince