Laura Gwilliam

“I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence,”
― Max Gunther, How to Get Lucky (Harriman Classics): 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life’s good breaks

“The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“I think self-esteem is a white invention to further separate one person from another. It asks people to assess their values and implies people have worth. It seems like identity capitalism.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir

“To ascend there must be a dark, a descent.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir