I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.

You've already put more than enough energy into worry. That's all women have been allowed to do, historically.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.