“To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.”- Terry Tempest Williams

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do…” - Georgia O’Keefe

“For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious, or whatever we please. We are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.” - Naomi Wolf

“We are alive only to the degree to which we are willing to be annihilated. Our next life will always cost us this one. If we are truly alive, we are constantly losing who we just were, what we just built, what we just believed, what we just knew to be true…I cannot hold too tightly to any riverbank. I must let go of the shore in order to travel deeper and see farther. Again and again, and then again. Until the final death and rebirth. Right up until then.” - Glennon Doyle

“Rest is your inheritance, left by ancestors who couldn’t claim it for themselves. [Take it].” - Laura Edmondson

“A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.” - Maya Angelou

“And the idea of settling down, what does that even mean? I never want to settle down. I want to be riled up all throughout. I want to find peace, and I want to feel more and more peace within myself, hopefully through loving myself and accepting who I am. But besides that, I want to be awake. I want to be moving and shaking, and alive. And who knows, maybe I’ll end up staying in one place for a long time because that’s where life carries me and there’s a lot of work to be done in one specific community or something. I don’t want to settle down just to settle down, just like I don’t want to move around just to move around. I want to follow the current of deep inspiration, and I want to follow the path that keeps me curious and keeps me learning throughout life.” - Adrianne Lenker

“I’ve driven down dirt roads I swore I never would again, camped in places I vowed to forget. I’ve listened to songs I said I couldn’t ever bear to hear, laughed at things I used to not even be able to whisper aloud. I’ve danced almost every day after I didn’t think I could ever even get out of bed. I’ve made new friends when I promised myself that I’d never make the mistake of putting myself out there. I’ve fallen deeply, madly, and vulnerably in love after I questioned whether I’d ever not be terrified to. I’ve apologized for things I wish I’d never done…things I’d never said. And I’ve forgiven myself for all of it.

You will heal. I promise. In time, you will heal.” - Brianna Madia

“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet or harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.” - Hermann Hesse

“I hope you find someone who speaks your language so you don’t have to spend a lifetime translating your spirit.” - Dr. Thema