Marla

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
― Maya Angelou

“Isn’t it awfully convenient,” Harry added, “that when men make the rules, the one thing that’s looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat? Imagine if every single woman on the planet wanted something in exchange when she gave up her body. You’d all be ruling the place. An armed populace. Only men like me would stand a chance against you. And that’s the last thing those assholes want, a world run by people like you and me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“A motto of mine had long been, “When the heart isn’t in it, all zest in the job is destroyed,”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke