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Keep giving of yourself. Give to others through your time and your interest, but give to others by nurturing yourself, too.

When I am prickly and sharp, standoffish and aloof, it is because I do not, intrinsically, deep down, think that a man like you would want to spend his time, romantically, with a woman like me.

Sexism is a loaded, emotional issue, and the loudest voices would have us believe that affirming our rightful place within gender equality is simply a case of saying, “Fuck you, offender!”

Life is not linear. We do not build a life by placing the parts of our selves we work for in a neat row, one after the other.

You used to show up, be in the moment, full and present and ready. You can be that person again.

I have a theory that in this life, we mostly only want one thing, at the root of it all: to be heard.

TOO. MANY. SELFIES.

“Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”

It’s been oft-said that we are the sum total of the five people we spend most of our time with.

“I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.”