Caitlin Hannah

“Not many people know how to be satisfied.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“I am living in the most opportune time in black history in the United States and that means, still, that I will die younger, live poorer, risk more exposure to police violence, and be punished by social policy for being a black woman in ways that aren’t true for almost any other group in this nation. That is the best it has ever been to be black in America and it is still that statistically bad at the macro level.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon, passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“What’s the one thing about yourself that you were taught to hate? What’s the biggest thing that you were taught is imperfect about you?”
― Jeffrey Marsh, How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life