“The active ingredient in period stigma is misogyny.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“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.”
― I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction
― I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction
“You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Throne of Glass
― Throne of Glass
“We all work for some reason: to feed our children, to earn money to support ourselves, to justify our life, to get a little bit of power. However, there are always tedious stages in that process, and the secret lies in transforming those stages into an encounter with ourselves or with something higher.”
― The Witch of Portobello
― The Witch of Portobello
“From the ground up, I was going to detox my identity of any and everything that someone else put there without my blessing.”
― Fresh Off the Boat
― Fresh Off the Boat
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