You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.
โ Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"It's okay. I'm just in a weird mood. Have you ever had a feeling like something was about to happen?"
โOf course," Kat replied. "It's called PMS."
-Dianne Sylvan
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. - Washington Irving
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. - Mahatma Gandhi
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Jawaharlal Nehru
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies. - Chuck Palahniuk
In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state. - Katha Pollitt
He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children. - Ronan Farrow
Prostitute. Whore. What did they really mean anyway? Only words. People didn't fit in slots - prostitute, housewife, saint - like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.
- Janet Fitch, White Oleander