Renee

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
― Maya Angelou