Everybody's got a true home — maybe not where they're living, but where their heart lives. - Charles de Lint

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength — in our partners as well as in ourselves.

"If you cherish something enough", she told me, "it doesn't matter how old or worn or useless it's become; your caring for it immediately raises its value in somebody else's eyes. It's just like rehab- a body's got to believe in their own worth before anybody can start fixing them, but most people need someone to believe in them before they can start believing in themselves."

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.