Quote. Augusten Burroughs

"Little girls are not delicate, new green ferns. They can be starved, beaten, raped, and beaten some more and not only survive this, but survive it and become black belts in any one of the martial arts so that if somebody tries again to fuck with them, the little girl, larger now, can kill them with either hand.

All children should be loved, protected, nurtured - emotionally and intellectually - respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.

Especially, most essentially, by themselves."

from This Is How