Laura

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt