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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,…
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now…
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I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is…
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific…
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With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go…
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage…
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All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
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If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
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There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into…
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs…
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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for…
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A drink is shorter than a tale
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