Victoria

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“In yet another commercial, Oprah somberly says, “Inside every overweight woman is a woman she knows she can be.” This is a popular notion, the idea that the fat among us are carrying a thin woman inside. Each time I see this particular commercial, I think, I ate that thin woman and she was delicious but unsatisfying. And then I think about how fucked up it is to promote this idea that our truest selves are thin women hiding in our fat bodies like imposters, usurpers, illegitimates.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“In early 2013, I came across a speech by Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer and educator Leanne Simpson, in which she describes her people’s teachings and governance structures like this: “Our systems are designed to promote more life.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate