Sharon

“In my own mind, I reflected that part of why I enjoy wearing a corset so much is that it is an accentuation of this difference. A woman is not an inferior man, so why should she dress like one?”
― Sarah A. Chrisman, Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself

“The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough. Eventually we become someone that we are not.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“All knowledge is worth having.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island