The fate of girlhood is to suffer, but suffering can be poetic if you don't show your sharp teeth or your open wounds. We, girls, are conditioned to fight and to ache for a gentle reminder that we are enough, that we don't have to destroy ourselves in order to save others, that we don't have to be the heroes that nobody writes stories about. We don't need to repent just for our mere existence. We don't have to carry the world's entire weight on our shoulders when in need of a shoulder to cry on.

















