Kerri

“The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

“One new indulgence was to go out evenings alone. This I worked out carefully in my mind, as not only a right but a duty. Why should a woman be deprived of her only free time, the time allotted to recreation? Why must she be dependent on some man, and thus forced to please him if she wished to go anywhere at night?

A stalwart man once sharply contested my claim to this freedom to go alone. “Any true man,” he said with fervor, “is always ready to go with a woman at night. He is her natural protector.” “Against what?” I inquired. As a matter of fact, the thing a woman is most afraid to meet on a dark street is her natural protector. Singular”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

“You need to guard your heart. You love deep. You’ll hurt deep. Go slow.”
― Christopher Greyson, And Then She Was Gone

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
― Voltaire