“The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.”

k.d. lang

“Learn all the rules … then break them.”

Lea DeLaria

“I like toughness and the outlaw sensibility.”

Harmony Hammond

“Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.”

Lily Tomlin

“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”

Mary Oliver

“No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,
sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,
dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding …”

Adrienne Rich

“The goal of life is to end up wiser. But more importantly, I think it should be to end up kinder, both to yourself and everyone around you.”

Miriam Margolyes

“The most radical thing you can do is to love yourself unapologetically.”

Barbara Smith

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

Angela Davis

“I’m finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.”

Wanda Sykes

“Death doesn’t bother me at all. What does bother me is not living well.”

Jeannette Winterson