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"Rejection is a blade to the heart. It's the worst kind of pain."

"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."

"An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. I learned that. This kind of story, this kind of things kept secrets - they have the power to keep your head in forever, and most of all for yourself."

"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

"And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated looking at herself. Especially into this one that had a scratch on its glass surface, which would reflect back to her face. And as she looked, it would cut her as the words her father would often say, in telling her she was ugly."

"Failure is information encased in a shell of pain."
Explore more quotes by Betty Buckley

"I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me."

"So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist."

"We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."

"Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do."

"The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people."

"Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert."

"It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them."

"The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life."
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