Angelica Downing

“The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“Some trees aren’t meant to sprout tender new branches, but to stand stoically on the forest floor, silently decaying.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures