Andrea

“Sensitive children come to be called “difficult” because adults have trouble understanding their temperament and because parenting methods that work with other children are frustratingly inadequate with this group.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

“We often play small, so as not to threaten other people. We don’t want to intimidate them by our brightness, but the truth is, you do them and yourself a disservice by dimming what you’ve been given—your intelligence, your light. Those are your gifts.”
― RuPaul, GuRu

“It was a night in late August, a night that rekindled in rattling windows and tree branch palsy that lost recollection of autumn, misplaced for the succession of bright summer distractions, trapped heat in small rooms and sweaty underarms.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist

“Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but also a death.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory