Priyanka

“Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

“But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.”
― Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin