Mom & Me & Mom

I was young enough and silly enough to think that if I had said so, it would be so.

If pessimism insists on occupying my thoughts, I remember there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

If you don’t protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you.

A woman needs to support herself before she asks anyone else to support her.

She liberated me from a society that would have had me think of myself as the lower of the low.

On the day we moved from her house, Mother liberated me by letting me know she was on my side.

Remember this: Your reputation is the most important thing you’ll ever have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world.

Love heals. Heals and liberates.