Chanelle Sinclair

“There will always be people in life who tell you no and sometimes it’s because they have nothing else to do that day except exert their power, and if you let their no stop you, you’ve just validated their opinion of you as worth more than your own.”
― Jen Kirkman, I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction

“Everything is at once so simple and so complicated! It’s simple because all it takes is a change of attitude: I’m not going to look for happiness anymore. From now on, I’m independent; I see life through my eyes and not through other people’s. I’m going in search of the adventure of being alive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Just like Trump, America loves to lie about itself, and Americans love to eat those lies up—anything that obliterates our sins, that tells us everything will be okay, that makes us the infallible, gallant protagonist in the story of Earth. We must root out the assumptions we swallow as fact and the facts we deny. We must not just examine but actively counter the disastrous, narcissistic death grip of mediocre white men on our past century’s art, media, and politics. We must start telling true stories about who we are, who is free and who is not, what we are doing to the planet.”
― Lindy West, The Witches are Coming

“The active ingredient in period stigma is misogyny.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman