i'm in love with this quote:
"if you're persistent, you'll get it. if you're consistent, you'll keep it. and if you're grateful, you'll attract more of it."
I do this at work with new men I meet who ppl have warned me about. I assert my dominance first and the reactions from them make me feel so powerful. They usually act pretty submissive to me.
Girls will survive abuse, heartbreak, grief, and unspeakable tragedies and still navigate through the world with kindness and compassion, but one minor inconvenience in a man's childhood and he spends the rest of his life terrorizing and poisoning everyone around him
Pattern Recognition is also the form of intelligence that causes the most stress.
You will see things that others do not.
You'll feel crazy.
Things will be *so obvious* to you, and others will just deny it.
Some of yโall think abuse has to look like screaming, bruises, and police reports every single day. A person can destroy your nervous system through intimidation, control, manipulation, humiliation, and unpredictability alone.
"And it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell."