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Around friends, we are the loudest ones. The ones who make the dumbest jokes. The ones who are the best storytellers.

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Stop waiting for the right person, right career, right opportunity to fall in her lap.

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Negative self-talk, even in the wake of failure.

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You cannot break a woman whose self-love is centered on possibility, on hope, on the potential she has to become something even more wild and wonderful than she already is.

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You can’t silence a woman who isn’t afraid of her voice.

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It can be hard for you to form relationships with people, because you feel like they don’t get you.

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I want our love to be loud. I want it to be fierce. I want it to be passionate. I want it to be anything but mundane and ho-hum and familiar.

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Find someone who will amplify you. You were born to be loud. You are a blown-ear drum kind of loud and you own it. Find someone who makes you louder.

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With wanting to express all of your thoughts comes the fear that you’re talking out of turn or saying something you shouldn’t. You’ve made the mistake MANY times and so the worry lingers, even as you grow up.

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These inspiring ladies prove that size does not matter. As a woman who stands 5’2″ tall, I know that big things come in small packages.