The shame you feel for insisting on fair pay isn't greed. It's a boundary, and it hands you back hours you can live in.

The thought behind it

Some things stay heavy because they have no name. This line supplies one, and the weight becomes something you can hold. Quiet Power is the strength that leaves no evidence — the no, the pause, the purchase that never happened. The line turns on “13” — remove that single word and what is left is advice you have already ignored.