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"A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in."
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"It is hard to earn the respect of others when you do not respect yourself. Others may find it difficult to enjoy your company if you do not enjoy your own."
"Dress confidently in clothes that make you feel great about yourself. When you look better you feel better."
"Confidence is silent, humble self-assurance. Moving one step past a healthy self-esteem, confidence projects an air of authority, trust, and respect-a commanding, respected presence."
"Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any."
"Be who your enemies dread you'll become."
"Identify confident people whom you admire and respect and notice what they do differently to project such confidence. Learn by observing role models."
"Tigers cannot afford to care about what sheep think."
"I am bold and daring. I go after what I want and create massive joy in my life."
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
"Doubt is a result of more than one internal voice giving differing and contradicting instructions and suggestions concerning a situation or a phase of your success journey. The triggering suggestions may be internal or external factors igniting internal conflict and uncertainty in the face of adversity. Yet inside of you must rise up a voice of authority which silences the disempowering shouts of unbelief. You need to have a deliberate plan to develop that internal voice of authority."
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"A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in."
"And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it."
"There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once."
"I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's."
"She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother's behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village woman; she should not keep thinking of all the retorts she could have made instead of just standing mutely in that kitchen. But she was upset, and made even more so by Odenigbo's expression, as if he could not believe she was not quite as high-minded as he had thought."
"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."
"We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present."
"Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?"
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