No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. -Martha Beck
What She Said, October 4: Martha Beck
What She Said, October 3: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I’m going. -Jackie Joyner-Kersee
What She Said, October 2: Susan B. Anthony
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony
What She Said, October 1: Dolly Parton
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. -Dolly Parton
What She Said, September 30: Sonya Renee Taylor
We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature. -Sonya Renee Taylor
What She Said, September 29: Harriet Tubman
I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. -Harriet Tubman
What She Said, September 28: Blair Imani
Sometimes privilege looks like being able to ignore a crisis that others are dying from. -Blair Imani
What She Said, September 13: Aditi Khorana
Company is sometimes the best thing we can give each other. It can be a balm for all the fear, loss, and anguish in the world. -Aditi Khorana
What She Said, September 12: Zora Neale Hurston
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That’s living. -Zora Neale Hurston
What She Said, September 10: Terri Windling
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality–for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and courage to use it widely. –Terri Windling
