Keshie

“Years ago, your father and I adopted this piece of chain as a symbol for our marriage. The two outer links represent each of our lives and the center link, our marriage. It reminds us that we have independent lives, dreams, and journeys, but at the same time, we are joined in a center space where our lives are one. We”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“I only vaguely understood at the time the ways that I myself was on my knees, how in need I was of taking back my soul as a woman. The episode propelled me into a collision with the patriarchal underpinning of my church, my faith tradition, my culture, my marriage, and, most illuminating of all, me. It sent me in search of the feminine dimension of God. It began a spiritual cataclysm. My old life dissolved and a new life, a new consciousness, rose up.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“In other words, in order to fulfil the goal of shouting, you created the emotion of anger.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

“I’m sure you didn’t. You’re either a child or a woman, and neither of them have any idea how to relax.’ ‘You watch it,’ said Christine.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop