Caroline Starr Rose

“So many thingsI know about myselfI've learned from others. Without someone else to listen, to judge, to tell me what to do, and choose who I am, do I get to decide for myself?”

“Some days I sit in the rocker,the quilt about me though it's hot outside. I shun the sunlight, groan to think of the water I must fetch, the steps I'll have to take, the work that's neededjust to exist.”

“What does it matterwhen I make mistakes?They don'tmake mewhoIam.”