"Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth." —Unknown

"If one succumbs to the dreams of another instead of their own, they will live a life of dissatisfaction." —Thomas Slatin

"Everyone speaks of how far the human race has advanced, yet we refuse to acknowledge the fact that we still unnecessarily and inexcusably condone the use of violence and destruction as a justifiable means of conflict resolution." —Thomas W.P. Slatin

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”—Maya Angelou

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” —Joan Didion

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”—Alice Walker

"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”—Joan Didion

"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.”—Margaret Atwood

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”—Alice Walker

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” —Harper Lee

"Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”—Toni Morrison

"Delete the adjectives and [you’ll] have the facts.” —Harper Lee

"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.” —Toni Morrison

"A word after a word after a word is power.”—Margaret Atwood

"There never was a war that was not inward.”—Marianne Moore