"Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist."

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Source : Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

Janet Mock

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“Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.”

Source : Ellen Galinsky (1987). “The Six Stages of Parenthood”, Da Capo Press
“I had been fighting since 1998 and knowing that this was going to be my last fight â€“ I was not going to leave any questions or anything out there as far as, â€˜Could I have done anything different?â€™ I was going to give this everything I had. My last memories of being a fighter were going to be good ones.”
“It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?”
“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”

Source : Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.”
“When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.”

Source : Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage
“I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.”
“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.93

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