The way power justifies controlling a group is by conditioning the masses to believe that the group cannot be trusted.

Each of us was born to bring forth something that has never existed: a way of being, a family, an idea, art, a community—something brand-new.

I do not believe that when we die, one of us will be presented with the She Who Suffered Most trophy.

I am a clinically depressed inspirational speaker. I am a diagnosed anxious person whose main job is to convince people that everything’s okay. Please note that if I can be these things, anyone can be anything.

Because what scares me a hell of a lot more than pain is living my entire life and missing my becoming. What scares me more than feeling it all is missing it all.

Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it.

Not a verb to be found. Nothing to do here, just a list of things to be.

It’s because our training is kicking in through our subconscious. Strong, happy, confident girls and women are breaking our culture’s implicit rule that girls should be self-doubting, reserved, timid, and apologetic.

“There is no such thing as one-way liberation,