Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or freeing than learning to like your own company.

Mandy Hale

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

I view 'autistic' as a word for a part of how my brain works, not for a narrow set of behaviors and certainly not for a set of boundaries of a stereotype that I have to stay inside.

Amanda Baggs

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Audre Lorde

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Holmes

I learned there was no shame in imperfection because history had shown being different had the power to change perspectives and eventually the world.

Shannon L. Alder