milk and honey by Rupi Kaur is a novel composed of poetry and prose touching on the hardships in life. In particular, Kaur focuses on the experiences of abuse, violence, love, loss and femininity. I highly recommend this book to girls and women of all ages, especially those going through a hard time or wanting to feel empowered.

Whether you're having a rough week, experiencing something that is testing your resilience or in need of some inspirational words of self love, I've compiled a list of the top 10 notable quotes I found most inspiring from this novel:

1. "you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else"

2. "it is a part of the human experience to feel pain do not be afraid open yourself to it"

3. "i like the way the stretch marks
on my thighs look human and
that we're soft yet
rough and jungle wild
when we need to be
i love that about us
how capable we are of feeling how unafraid we are of breaking
and tend to our wounds with grace
just being a woman
calling myself
a woman
makes me utterly whole and complete"

4. "our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry"

5. "accept yourself as you were designed"

6. "other women's bodies are not our battlegrounds"

7. "i want to apologize to all the women
i have called pretty
before i've called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you're born with
is the most you have to be proud of when your
spirit has crushed mountains
from now on i will say thinks like
you are resilient or you are extraordinary
not because i don't think you're pretty but because you are so much more than that"

8. "if the hurt comes so will the happiness
-be patient"

9. "how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you"

10. "if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else"

Slay.