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“Whenever you start doubting yourself, whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change and change is what we're chemically designed to do.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“Mom didn’t get better. But I will.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and exploited.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“And if my entire life and point of view and identity have been built on a false foundation, confronting that false foundation would mean destroying and rebuilding a new foundation from the ground up. I have no idea how to go about doing this.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I’m pretty sure the God I’ve learned about doesn’t make exceptions.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“If you knew how much anger I had in me you’d say Thank God she’s not a man She might destroy millions Thank God the only person she has the power to destroy Is herself”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“My heart screamed in capital letters.”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“A classic trait of girlhood - forever confusing your desires with that of an older man's.”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“He was a winner who did not understand how to lose, the most dangerous kind.”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“They were talking in circles, and he could not hear her over his anger and defensiveness and ego - over his aggressive need to frame the narrative. For eight years, she was human scaffolding, doing this rickety, dangerous, exhausting work all around his frame while he stretched toward the sky, this inanimate object trying to be glorious, but busy casting shadows on all that surrounded it. On her. She couldn’t do it anymore. Finally, Rae had come to an understanding with herself that she wasn’t obligated to.”
― Denene Millner, One Blood

“My blood flows back to my enslaved ancestors. My blood flows through everything, everyone.”
― Denene Millner, One Blood

“They tell you to get a guy friend to walk you home, not realizing that guy friends can rape you. Take a cab! But the cab driver can rape you. Take an uber, but they're even more rapey. Take the metro -- rapists ride free.
What if everyone was like me, I wondered, and hunted down their respective Will's? Would the economy collapse?”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“if you existed as a woman in the world and were anything but polite you were rude, uppity, a bitch, stuck-up, a cunt, the list went on.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“If you meet some standard of objective attractiveness, people think you’re better than you actually are—smarter, more interesting, worthier of existing”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“When I say this person makes me uncomfortable, can you just take me seriously? I said it because I meant it!”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“He smiled at him like he was going to sell him a sub-prime mortgage”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“I would heal - I always did.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough. We have a cultural tendency toward denial, but being affluent, we strangle ourselves with what we can buy. We gave only to look at the houses we build to see how we build *against* space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.”
― Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces