Jennifer

“She was too much in the habit of criticizing and complaining to stop, so I had decided to get out of the habit of taking it personally. I could see my mother's words were my grandmother's legacy of disappointment, and the best I could do was to live in a way that would break the cycle.”
― Eleanor Brown, The Light of Paris

“You get to live a new life on the foundation of the cross. You do not get what you deserve. You get grace instead. Grace is terribly, beautifully unfair, and it's yours for the taking.”
― Alli Patterson, How to Stay Standing

“Was it harder to be a woman? Or an immigrant? Or a Chinese person outside of China? And why did being a good any of the above require you to edit yourself down so you could become someone else?”
― Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

“It remains a damning fact of life that we ask too much of those who are marginalized and too little of those who are not.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times