You donโt have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones youโre holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.
Cheryl StrayedI think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a woman alone is to be in a dangerous situation. The message is that people are gong to prey on you and do bad things to you. That may be true in some cases, but what I experienced was the other case.
Cheryl StrayedWriting is hard for every last one of usโstraight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.
Cheryl Strayed