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.

I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent.

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

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.