The Nobility of Gender Difference...

Photo: Lydia Stewart

If you try to teach young people that there are no essential differences between men and women, that brings chaos into the whole social fabric.  You take away the nobility, and the beauty, and the dignity of gender differences, and then try to get men and women to be good men and women... it won't happen.

-John Eldredge, Absent

You can always turn back…

Photo: Ben Romney, Europe

“If you are headed down the wrong road, no matter how far you’ve gone, you can always turn back.”

Laura Resau, “The Indigo Notebook”

Fear

Photo: Ben Romney, Europe

Nothing is more frightening then a fear you cannot name.

-Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

Faith

Photo: Lydia Stewart

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
-Blaise Pascal

Underestimating Ones Self...

(Photo: Ben Romney in Europe)

My stepmother was in many ways an excellent woman... Her only weakness was foolishly to doubt her own capabilities.

My father believed that, in understanding and in knowledge of right and wrong and in many other things, women are men's equals and I am entirely of his opinion.

-Susanna Clarke, "Jonathan Stange & Mr. Norrell"