Anna

“Us leaving the country wasn’t much of a big deal to anyone other than a few close friends and family.”
― Helen Russell, The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

“It isn’t too smart for a girl to be smart, her mom had always said. So she just made herself very, very small.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more balanced, they assign responsibility for success and failure more evenhandedly, and their predictions for the future are more realistic. These people are living testimony to the dangers of self-knowledge. They are the clinically depressed.”
― Cordelia Fine, A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives

“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches