Later in life I learned that the way many governors projected the numbers of beds they’d need for prison facilities was by examining the reading scores of third graders. Elected
“Until I surrendered myself to the cages of others’ expectations, cultural mandates, and institutional allegiances. Until I buried who I was in order to become what I should be. I lost myself when I learned how to please.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“Todas las parejas nos peleamos, incluso yo a veces he tenido ganas de separarme, pero al final lo que cuenta es el amor, si hay amor en una pareja, todo lo demás no tiene importancia.”
― Dime quién soy
― Dime quién soy
“»Si quiere saber qué pienso, se lo resumiré: aborrezco todos los «ismos»: comunismo, socialismo, nacionalismo, fascismo… En definitiva, todo lo que lleva el germen del totalitarismo.”
― Dime quién soy
― Dime quién soy
“I was wild until I was tamed by shame. Until I started hiding and numbing my feelings for fear of being too much. Until I started deferring to others’ advice instead of trusting my own intuition. Until I became convinced that my imagination was ridiculous and my desires were selfish. Until I surrendered myself to the cages of others’ expectations, cultural mandates, and institutional allegiances. Until I buried who I was in order to become what I should be. I lost myself when I learned how to please.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“Hustling to comply with my memos, I was flying on autopilot, routed to a destination I never chose. So I took back the wheel. I quit abandoning myself to honor those memos. Instead, I abandoned the memos and began honoring myself. I began to live as a woman who never got the world’s memos.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
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