“A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else." -Toyi Ward”
“The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.”
“But who have the ability to know what will fit into a new individual? And who can say to someone else what happiness looks like, who can say what someone else wants to be?”
“A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.”
“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. ”
“Louise Colet was a proto-feminist who committed the sin of wanting to make someone else happy.”