Do the best you can until you know better. Then you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
lk 219
Do the best you can until you know better. Then you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
lk 219
It is the ultimate victory for a woman to find a way to love herself and other women while existing in the world insisting that she has no right to.
lk 116
I got sick from it. Not because I’m a bad, sexist person, but because I was breathing misogynistic air.
lk 216
Because what the world needs right now in order to evolve is to watch one woman at a time live her most beautiful life without asking for permission or offering explanation.
lk 202
A woman becomes a responsible parent when she stops being an obedient daughter.
lk 194
Your job through your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.
lk 173
Perhaps part of a woman’s freeing herself is freeing her partner, her father, her brother, and her son.
lk 170
In a misogynistic culture, all that is needed to label the feminine. Then we can forever discount them in women and forever shame them out of men. Ta-da: no more messy, world- changing tenderness to deal with.
lk 165
Because disallowing the expression of these qualities is the way the status quo keeps its power.
lk 165
The problem is that the parts of themselves that our boys have been banished from are not feminine traits; they are human traits.
lk 164
We train boys to believe that the way to become a man is to objectify and conquer women, value wealth and power above all, and suppress any emotions other than competitiveness and rage.
lk 164
It’s a lifelong battle for a woman to stay whole and free in a world hell-bent on caging her.
lk 162