Elisabeth

“Still, I wasn’t ready to forgive her. I wasn’t ready to welcome her into our life. I know I was being cruel. But I was a teenager: cruelty was the only leverage I had.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“There’s very little we can control in this life. All we can do is accept whatever comes, learn what we can, and hang on to what we love. And that’s it. In the end, the only thing you can hope to control is yourself. In this moment. Which is both a relief and a huge responsibility, both at the same time.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“While it is true that there is a freedom in forgetting—and this country has made great use of that freedom—there is a tremendous power in remembrance. Indeed, it is memory that teaches us, and reminds us, again and again, who we truly are and who we have always been.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“carry your hearts high in the face of difficult things.”
― Vanda Krefft, Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women