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"My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one."
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"Never settle; if it doesn't feel right, it's not suppose to."
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"Don't dim magic because there are non believers, let it shine out of you and they won't know how to look away."
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"Achieving your goal should always be of secondary importance. Your focus should be on becoming the kind of person deserving of the goal."
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"Take a moral inventory of ways you may be self-sabotaging and then take proactive steps to change them."
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"Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be."
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"The line between ego and healthy self-esteem is very delicate. We should know when we cross this line, switch side, and become egotistical."
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"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."
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"Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste your time to explain."
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"I'm adaptable. A nomad, my mom always says." Zoe raised an eyebrow. "Your mom?" "Well I wasn't spawned."
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"Everything can be achieved through gradual steps " one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams... anything you wish to be different from the way it is."
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"He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable."
Love
"When it rains," her father said "it pours."
Philosophy
"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."
Literature
"Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either."
Life
"I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way."
Family
"Go fuck yourself Judge.""Motion denied." answers the judge dryly."
Justice
"It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids."
Family
"I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend."
Success
"People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen."
Faith
"The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow."
Love
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