Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Having chosen something worth doing, never give up, and try not to let anyone down.
I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.
When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has been with men. They exposed me to things that I wasn't aware of. I learned from all the guys.
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.
My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
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