Huma

“We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Every breath is a chance to reborn spiritually. But to be reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.”
― Shams Tabrizi

“It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only of the first step. The rest will come.”
― Shams Tabrizi

“She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood—that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. It could be brimful of occupations which did not weary you to the bone.”
― Alice Munro, Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014