Always Remember the Divine

I'm relationship centered creature, hopelessly bookish and feminist, so I was kind of bound to fall in love with Jane Austen's writing eventually. I think it would have been better if I had chosen Pride and Prejudice rather than Tom Sawyer in the Fifth grade, but nerdiness aside, “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” ― Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice That is how I see stubornness, and perhaps I'm biased because I'm rather bull-headed. Like many other traits I possess, I don't assume ill of them, regardless of their connotation. For me, Stubbornness is survival. Yo Jane, I like your words. Sorry it took me so long to figure it out. Stubbornness is resilience. Stubbornness, however inconvenient in day to day life, is the quality that allowed me to push past insurmountable circumstance and allows me to continue on when that ugly ...