Rachel

“In so doing, I resisted the descent into what the school counselors called low self-esteem. Self-esteem is the dark, distorted shadow of self-possession. Self-esteem gazes inward and wills the inner eye to like what it sees; self-possession looks inward only long enough to take a measure then looks outward at the world in search of a fitting place—and settles for no less.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me

“It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.”65”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist