Paula

“Whether this is my end or a new beginning I have no way of knowing: I have given myself over into the hands of strangers, because it can't be helped. And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“It’s all a process, steps along a path. Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor. Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“I believe that when too many people gather together, lured by a promise and immediately demanding something, there is never any knowing who among them speaks.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“In any case a civilization which insists upon compulsory education must logically insist upon compulsory health of the children it educates.”
― S. Josephine Baker, Fighting for Life