It would not have taken me half a lifetime to learn to set boundaries and say “no” with confidence had I been nurtured differently.
“The world is easier to navigate if you remember that people are governed by emotions, acting more often out of jealousy, pride, shame, desire, fear, or vanity than dispassionate logic.”
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“If you aren’t actively listening as Rogers described, you’ll miss the meaning beneath the message and be compromised, or clueless, in your future dealings with her.”
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“The saddest things about these cases, beyond the crimes themselves, are the degrading things the victim begins to believe about her being. My hope is to undo these beliefs. I say her, but whether you are a man, transgender, gender-nonconforming, however you choose to identify and exist in this world, if your life has been touched by sexual violence, I seek to protect you. And to the ones who lifted me, day by day, out of darkness, I hope to say thank you.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
“The most lonely thing in the world is a soul when it is preparing to go on its far journey.”
― The Last Leaf
― The Last Leaf
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