Listen. Every time you're given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else.… - Glennon Doyle

Whether you are brave or not cannot be judged by people on the outside. Sometimes being brave requires letting the crowd think you're a coward. Sometimes being brave means letting everyone down but yourself.

What if we revised our memo? What if we decided that successful parenting includes working to make sure that all kids have enough, not just that the particular kids assigned to us have everything? What if we used our mothering love less like a laser, burning holes into the children assigned to us, and more like the sun, making sure all kids are warm?

To be brave is to forsake all others to be true to yourself.