“Love is the one thing on which you should never compromise”

“Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you leverage all of that to sap our money and our time—that moves the rudder of the world. It steers humanity toward conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in waters where women’s safety and humanity are secondary to men’s pleasure and convenience.”

“There was not an inch of solid ground anywhere in the world for me to call my own. I didn't belong anywhere. Had I disappeared, no one would have noticed.”

“But you can't give up on people. It's one of the three keys of friendship. You gotta listen, you gotta care, and most importantly, you gotta keep trying.”

“Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real.”

“Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.”

“In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.”

“Be who you are, even if it kills you. It will. Over and over again. Even as you live. Break my heart, why don't you?”