“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lorde     “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” – Audre Lorde     “My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which…

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”- Arthor Schopenhauer   “Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”- Arthor Schopenhauer   “Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”-Arthor Schopenhauer “Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.”-Arthor Schopenhauer   “To live alone…

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle     “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle     “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle     “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle     “You see, but you do not observe.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle     “The world is full of obvious things…