This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
I used to be the easiest and most fun person to have conversations with, then I realised there's literally no point to it, so I just stopped. Sahii I will bore you to death
i'm genuinely flabbergasted by how many people believe it's better for a child to be born into starvation, abuse, neglect, illness, & poverty than not be born at all
At the barbing salon.
Barber about to cut a kid. Asks his father what hairstyle he should cut for him.
Father says: "Ask him what he wants."
I shed a tear inside.
It’s always the mothers who have to dedicate their lives to caring for these children.
I’ve worked with disabled kids and it’s ALWAYS the mothers. The fathers are never as involved, as attentive, as informed as the mother on the child’s needs. Always the mothers.
One of my biggest dreams is to build a company that creates opportunities for women who started later than expected.
Internships and graduate trainee programs for women in their late 20s and 30s. Remote jobs for women in their 40s and 50s.