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“Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Inside every child is an ‘emotional tank’ waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally, but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty ‘love tank.”
― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts

“Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often courage.”
― Gary Chapman

“To not have been destroyed, to not have given up, to have survived, is no badge of honor.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“The trick is to stay busy, distract then distract the distraction. Get twice removed. It’s about layers. It’s about disappearing in the whir of noise and doing.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“But my generation knows, OKAY? We know EVERYTHING! So if anything goes sideways with your childhood, I’ll be held responsible. It will never be legally sustainable that I acted “in good faith.” I could have googled it. I should have googled it. My God, why didn’t I google it? Damn it.”
― Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know about the World

“Because that team just had the coolest-looking shirts. And that shirt will follow you for a lifetime. Longer than most people. It’ll become your superpower. You’ll meet plenty of people who won’t understand it, but regardless of where you end up in life, that shirt will give you ninety minutes of amnesia every week. And you’ll discover that, sometimes, that’s the most desired superpower of all.”
― Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know about the World

“Never go to a game of anything and shout, “You’re playing like a woman!” at an athlete, as though that word were the definition of weakness. One day, you’ll be holding a woman’s hand as she gives birth and then that’ll make you feel more ashamed than you’ve ever felt about anything. Words matter. Be better.”
― Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know about the World

“I want you to always remember that you can become whatever you want to become, but that’s nowhere near as important as knowing that you can be exactly who you are.”
― Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know about the World

“I know that in a year or two, you’ll learn how to talk, and after that you’ll pretty quickly enter that phase where, regardless of what I say, you’ll always ask “Why?” Well, I can help you out right now by telling you that in 95 percent of the cases, the answer to “Why?” will be “Because people are really bloody stupid.”
― Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know about the World

“a woman never left her parents behind, even when the parents left her.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“Often—most of the time—they turned something ordinary into something extraordinary, and elaborated on the simplest explanations so much that they ended up confusing rather than clarifying the point they were trying to make.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“She would bemoan this for the rest of her life: Why did I let it happen? Why did I not tell him when there was a chance to fix it? Because the perfect course of action can only be seen in hindsight, which is why we fill life with so many should haves.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“All this nonsense about women having it all. We never could and we never shall. Women always have to make the difficult choices. But there is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“I can appreciate my body in a bikini and still want to set fire to the patriarchy.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“It is one thing to fight for freedom; it is another to condemn the innocent to die in your war.”
― Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

“I can’t imagine all men love their women the way I love Anne. If they did, the streets would be empty, and the fields would grow fallow. Industry would rumble to a halt and markets would tumble as men bowed at the feet of their wives, unable to need or notice anything but her. If all men loved their wives the way I love Anne, we would be a useless lot. Or maybe the world would know peace. Maybe the wars would end, and the strife would cease as we centred our lives on loving and being loved.”
― Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

“Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing our youth, our beauty, and our bodies.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“There comes a day in every man’s life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“Who I dislike more than the church are the religious posers who take the parables of the Bible and use them as a weapon to hurt and control women. They’re like a Christian mullet—religion in the front, evil in the back.”
― Erin Gibson, Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

“#MeToo is about the myriad ways straight men are failing us—not just by being predators like Harvey Weinstein, but also by ignoring our consent in seemingly smaller ways too. It’s about men disregarding our boundaries in intimate situations because they’ve been taught every dick move is fair in the search for a mate, like we’re all just exotic fauna on their hunting safari.”
― Erin Gibson, Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

“Next time a man is looking at your tits, try this: Look them in the eyes, giggle lightly, and say—loudly—“It’s so funny that you’re trying to look at my boobs!” Now you’ve got everyone’s attention. Escalate your laugh into a deep, maniacal cackle. He’ll try to leave the area, but you block him with your laugh-scream and shout, “It’s so funny that you’re trying to see my titties, ’CAUSE YOU’RE NEVER GONNA SEE THEM. EVVVVVVEEEEEEERRRRRRR!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!”
― Erin Gibson, Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

“If a woman is offended by your words, then you are saying something repugnant.”
― Erin Gibson, Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

“The idea that clothing choices can stop men from raping is a frustratingly common belief having nothing to do with sexual assault. According to a study by A Federal Commission on Crime of Violence, rapists could not remember what their victims were wearing. So why do people continue to blame the clothing choices of women?”
― Erin Gibson, Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

“But no woman, no matter how terrible, despicable, and hypocritical, deserves to be called a whore for what she’s wearing.”
― Erin Gibson, Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

“Desert Ridge High School in Arizona even blamed the future unemployment of high school boys on the domino effect that occurs when boy sees young woman in yoga pants, boy gets distracted, boy fails all his classes, boy works as a fry cook. Boys getting distracted is not the female student’s problem. I spent half my time in high school looking into basketball shorts to stare at dicks and I graduated with a 4.0. Sounds like these boys have a time-management problem, not a yoga pant problem.”
― Erin Gibson, Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

“People want us to be powerless, they want us not to see the oppression that holds us down. All you have to do is see it and change as much of it as you can handle. No one is asking you to change the world by yourself, so just start with your world.”
― Erin Gibson, Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

“The Chinese say it’s better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.” Mariam gave a half smile. “It’s a good saying.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns