#era

I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its leader, that tribe will become two. It may faulter my course, but it will not stifle my ending. I rule only among my believers. ↗

— Kristie LeVangie

#belief #essence #faith #family #feminine

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #infidelity #marriage #seperation #silence

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#majors #reading-books #love

A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#heart #infidelity #marriage #seperation #marriage

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#marriage #marriage

I’d done it. I’d successfully pushed away two wonderful men. My desire to hurt neither of them, ended up hurting them both ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#men

I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have the right to devalue them . . . ? Maybe it was time to slow down and look at the role restrictions imposed not only on women but the men around them, to search for the balance that could promote self-sufficiency . . . ↗

— Lin Pardey

#women-s-liberation #women-s-strength #womens-rights #men

There is no greater glory than to die for love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love