“I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.”
“The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.”
“And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.”
“But only people you care about can hurt you. That doesn't mean I love her. Hate is not the opposite of love; not caring is. And as long as I hate her, I still care about her, and she has the power to hurt me. To make me hate myself.”
“I was never in any danger," she said calmly. "Nothing can ever hurt me. Nothing can take me from me.”
“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”