"The Sun and Her Flowers" Quotes

i want to apologize to all the women i have called pretty before i’ve called them intelligent or brave

the kindest words my father said to me women like you drown oceans

what terrifies me most is how we foam at the mouth with envy when others succeed but sigh in relief when they are failing

i am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away

i will always be terrified of feeling stagnant

you might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant

break my heart. break it a thousand times if you like. it was only ever yours to break anyway

you do not just wake up and become the butterfly - growth is a process

the universe took its time on you crafted you to offer the world something different from everyone else

i stand on the sacrifices of a million women before me thinking what can i do to make this mountain taller so the women after me can see farther