Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.
I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
I’m just a simple country girl.
Life is meant to be lived.
God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow.
Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.
As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all.
I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are – to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.
Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.
Just live well. Just live.
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?
It’s only too late if you don’t start now.