This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength, but hardness.

message ♕ submit

"The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as she can the grounds for the faith that is in her, and leave her example to work on others as it may."

— William James, “The Dilemma of Determinism” (via aiviloanna)