True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to the problem of violence against women of color. However, as the anti-violence movement has been institutionalized and professionalized, the state plays an increasingly dominant role in how we conceptualize and create strategies to minimize violence against women.

A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover!

Nihilism is.not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.