“The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.”— Shirley MacLane, amazon.com
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”— Warsan Shire, genius.com
“I've learned that just because someone is cute and wants to date you, that's not a reason to sacrifice your independence.”— Taylor Swift, nydailynews.com
“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”— Fred Rogers, relevantmagazine.com
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”— Lucille Ball, amazon.com
“You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.”— Warsan Shire, genius.com
“There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is so big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“Maybe women are so busy faking it — to be more like a man at work, more like a porn star in bed, more like 30 at 50 — that we don’t trust our natural responses anymore.”— Kristi Coulter, vox.com
“You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is no…”— Erin McKean, dressaday.com
“How I Stopped Using Mirrors and Started Stealing Glances of Myself in Reflective Buildings”— Reductress, reductress.com