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“General Wolf Rules For Life
1. Eat
2. Rest
3. Rove in between
4. Render loyalty
5. Love the children
6. Cavil in the moonlight
7. Tune your ears
8. Attend to the bones
9. Make love
10. Howl”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Beware men in power to praise principles; they're either without them or lacking in perception.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Imager

“As we explained our idea of teaching Gandhian tactics to women's movements, she listened to us patiently, sitting and rocking on her veranda, sipping tea. When we were finished, she said, 'Well, of course, my dears. We taught him everything we knew.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“One leads, willing or not," Deputy Tallien answered. "It takes courage to face one's own death but even more so the death of others. We are learning this lesson well.”
― Sandra Gulland, The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.

“Love in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one on one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of that love is weighted by how much better.”
― Chris Crutcher, Deadline

“Mmmmmm . . ." Pattern said, content. "Humans can see the world as it is not. It is why your lies can be so strong. You are not able to admit they are lies.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“The artist Eleseth," Shallen observed to Pattern, "once did an experiment. She set out only ruby spheres, in their strength, to light her studio. She wanted to see what effect the all - red light would have upon her art."

"Mmmm," Pattern said. "To what result?"

"At first, during a painting session, the color of light affected her strongly. She would use too little red, and the fields of blossoms would look washed out."

"Not unexpected."

"The interesting thing, however, was what happened if she continued working," Shallen said, "If she painted for hours by that light, the effects diminished. The colors of her reproductions grew more balanced, the pictures of flowers more vivid. She eventually concluded that her mind compensated for the colors she saw. Indeed, if she switched the color of the light during a session, she'd continue for a time to paint as if the room were still read, reacting against the new color.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“How wonderful that it's possible to ensure our own happiness of another. Is it our job to make a beloved happy? It is not. The other person always has a choice. It is our job to generously outdo, no matter what, and discover that the prize in this contest of generosity is more love.”
― Jan Karon, Come Rain or Come Shine

“Listen. Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us—whether their words appear to be deep or shallow—listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.”
― Jan Karon, Come Rain or Come Shine

“But the moment we reimagine the world as a buzzing hive of individuals with a variety of genders and complicated sexes and unique, passionate narratives that have yet to be told -- it makes them harder to ignore. They are no longer "women, cattle, and slaves" but active players in their own stories.

And ours.

Because when we choose to write stories, it's not just an individual story we're telling. It's theirs. And yours. And ours. We all exist together. It all happens here. It's muddy and complex and often tragic and terrifying. But ignoring half of it, and pretending there is only one way a woman lives or has ever lived – in relation to the men that surround her – is not a single act of erasure, but a political erasure.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution

“When people come to me about fears of public speaking while fat, about heckling, about online harassment, I feel it necessary to remind people that I got the same amount of harassment for being “fat” at 220 as I do for being “fat” at 290. as a woman, you are always going to be fat. People are always going to trot that one out to try to insult you like taking up more space in the world, as a woman, is the absolute worst thing you can do.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Geek Feminist Revolution

“The first time I heard the saying 'Live every day like you are going to live forever and every day like is your last.' I thought it was one of those unsolvable story problems from my fifth grade arithmetic books, but it turned out to be the truest thing about my year.”
― Chris Crutcher, Deadline

“The power of the corrupt governments and entrenched corporations feels inevitable. No doubt so did the rule of kings and landowners before them.

But I know better now. I know there is a greater power, and it is ours. The greater power is us.

And that is the world we will build out here, somewhere, when we bring all our pieces back together.

A future made of light.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

“Was it real? Well, of course not, not in any meaningful sense of the word "real." But did it stay with me? Absolutely. Long after my psychosis cleared, and the medications took hold, it became part of what one remembers forever, surrounded by an almost Proustian melancholy. Long since that voyage of my mind and soul, Saturn and its icy rings took on an elegiac beauty, and I don't see Saturn's image now without feeling an acute sadness at its being so far away from me. So unobtainable in so many ways. the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness of my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe, once I was better, that the illness was one I should willingly give up. Even though I was a clinician and a scientist, and even though I could read the research literature and see the inevitable, bleak consequences of not taking lithium, I for many years after my initial diagnosis was reluctant to take my medications as prescribed." An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison Pages 90 - 91, 2nd paragraph.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“People say, when I complain of being less lively, less energetic, less high - spirited, "Well, now you're just like the rest of us," meaning, among other things to be reassuring. But I compare myself with my former self, not with the others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been mildly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.

And I miss Saturn very much." An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison page 92, paragraph 1 sentence 2 -4 and paragraph 2”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“There is no greater power on this earth than story." The Diviners by Libba Bray page 407 paragraph 4 sentence 1”
― Libba Bray

“People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense --- words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions --- words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History." The Diviners by Libba Bray page 407 paragraph 7, sentences 3 - 10”
― Libba Bray

“I didn't talk on the way back to the Hill of Dust.

But the maestra did. The whole way, she murmured the sweetest, softest words in Mixteco, words from Grandfather that floated here and there like feathers.”
― Laura Resau, The Lightning Queen

“You know what this means," Harrison said.
"It means no goodbye," Zoe said, feeling a smile rise up from inside her.
Pipsqueak nuzzled the top of her head.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Catalyst

“But every day I remind myself that nothing matters more than extending the legacy of the angels in my life. It’s my devout conviction that if I’m not enabling and encouraging the underprivileged and the vulnerable, then I haven’t justified their confidence in me, and I haven’t done sufficient justice to their gifts.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“Sometimes folks need preaching. Sometimes the message of love, inclusion, and equality needs to be direct and clear.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir