Quotes About Support

Who drinks your tears, who has your wings, who hears your story?

Some species of trees spread root systems underground that interconnect the individual trunks and weave the individual trees into a more stable whole that can't so easily be blown down in the wind. Stories and conversations are like those roots. ("A Short History of Silence")

the outsiders stick together because their differences from each other are insignificant in the face of their differences from a hostile mainstream.

Mutual aid [called this in Kropotkin's 1902 Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution means that every participant is both giver and recipient in acts of care that bind them together, as distinct from the one-way street of charity. 86

because though a rape is reported only every 6.2 minutes in this country, the estimated total is perhaps five times as high. Which means that there may be very nearly a rape a minute in the United States. It all adds up to tens of millions of rape victims. A significant portion of the women you know are survivors.

A significant portion of the women you know are survivors.

The people close to you become mirrors and journals in which you record your history, the instruments that help you know yourself and remember yourself, and you do the same for them. When they vanish so does the use, the appreciation, the understanding of those small anectodes, catchphrases, jokes: they become a book slammed shut or burnt.

Here is that road, maybe a thousand miles long, and the woman walking down it isn't at mile one. I don't know how far she has to go, but I know she's not going backward, despite it all - and she's not walking alone.

Spouses are also the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the United States.

Gay men have redefined and occasionally undermined conventional masculinity—publicly, for many decades—and often been great allies for women.

it's okay to realize that we do need help, that calling out for help is a very generous act because it allows others to help us and it allows us to be helped. Sometimes we're calling out for help.

Mutual aid [called this in Kropotkin's 1902 Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution ] means that every participant is both giver and recipient in acts of care that bind them together, as distinct from the one-way street of charity.

Much of this is done through speech, through telling of one's plight, through being heard, through hearing compassion and understanding in the response of the people you tend to, whom you befriend. Not only women do this, but perhaps women do this more routinely. It's how I cope, or how my community helps me cope, now that I have one.

There are lovely and wonderful men out there, and one of the things that's encouraging in this round of the war against women is how many men I've seen who get it, who think it's their issue too, who stand up for us and with us in everyday life, online and in the marches from New Delhi to San Francisco this winter.

it's okay to realize that we do need help, that calling out for help is a very generous act because it allows others to help us and it allows us to be helped.

you do not have too many boogeymen for me. You have just the right number.

It kills me to think I didn't spot her headed for the rocks. Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course.

I couldn't wait until my own stroke was strong enough for me to follow in her wake.

Jack says your letters still sound cheery, but I know that's just because you're putting on a good face for him. We think you're the one that needs cheering up, Bébé.

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.

Every home is, and should be, unique. Your habits, dreams, family, and hobbies are personal to you, and ideally your space reflects and supports your unique style. There are not rules for setting up your home; it just has to work for you. (Happy Starts at Home: Getting the Life You Want by Changing the Space You've Got, Rebecca West)

He looked real sad and lost. And all he said was, 'Help me, please help me.

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