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“Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.”
― Audre Lorde

“I never hold a grudge. As soon as I get even with the son-of-a bitch, I forget it.”
― W.C. Fields

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim "You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself" made clear sense. And I add, "Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions