No one has more of a right to love, life, or acceptance than anyone else. The circumstances of our birth or parenting don't add anything to or take anything away from those rights. We need to hear more voices, not fewer, and living in a way so that others can be heard is different from silencing ourselves. Living in a way that lets others take up all the space they need is different than constricting ourselves. There is room for all of us to expand, and if we don't do it in life, we will do it in death as our bodies decompose and spread all over the earth.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
~ Marianne Williamson