All too often women* believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.

bell hooks

* I’d say people. We all deserve this expression of L O V E .

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

George Eliot

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anais Nin

Sense of beauty is a gift from God, for which those who have received it in good measure can never be thankful enough.

Gertrude Jeckyll

Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.

Pierce Brown