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One word: Persistence.
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Cooking for Ghosts (The Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy, #1)
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2016
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Harlot's Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss, and Greece
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2008
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Spells and Oregano (The Secret Spice Cafe #2)
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The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
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2011
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Demons, Well-Seasoned (The Secret Spice Cafe #3)
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2019
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Us and “The Stupid-Maker”
In our society there is a new class warfare emerging. It’s no longer only “rich versus poor.” It is already a “thinking class” versus a “scrolling class”, a “reading class” versus a “streaming class”, a “writing class” versus an “ai-prompting class.” ~ Cheyenne L. Hunt, executive director of Gen Z for Change […]
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“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defence of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations, the new needs friends... Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”
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“The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don't have it yet, pretend that you do. Pretend you're not nervous, pretend you're not scared, and after a while, the pretend part disappears.”
― The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
― The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
“If I had a daughter, here's what I'd tell her:
One day, when you've worked hard for what you want, when people see that you are confident and intelligent and that you recognize your own self-worth, when you take care of yourself, support yourself, and stand up for yourself, that is the day that the world will call you "a cruel and selfish bitch."
It's a tough title to earn and you should be and proud of it.”
― The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
One day, when you've worked hard for what you want, when people see that you are confident and intelligent and that you recognize your own self-worth, when you take care of yourself, support yourself, and stand up for yourself, that is the day that the world will call you "a cruel and selfish bitch."
It's a tough title to earn and you should be and proud of it.”
― The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
“As women of the western world, we see our sisters in other lands being raped, maimed and even executed simply for trying to exercise the most basic freedoms, such as taking a bus alone or wearing a bright red sweater. And when we look at our own world, we see that it too still lacks equality for the sexes.
It's a terrible thing to go through one's entire lifetime not getting to do all the things we dream of doing just because others say we're not permitted to do them, and to know that they will hurt us if we try.
But far, far worse than that is when there's not a thing or a person outside that's stopping us from living exactly as we wish, but we stop ourselves; internally we do not give ourselves permission, simply because we're too scared of what will happen if we dare.”
― The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
It's a terrible thing to go through one's entire lifetime not getting to do all the things we dream of doing just because others say we're not permitted to do them, and to know that they will hurt us if we try.
But far, far worse than that is when there's not a thing or a person outside that's stopping us from living exactly as we wish, but we stop ourselves; internally we do not give ourselves permission, simply because we're too scared of what will happen if we dare.”
― The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
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“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer -and if so, why?”
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“Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater.”
― I See Rude People: One Woman’s Battle to Beat Some Manners Into Impolite Society
― I See Rude People: One Woman’s Battle to Beat Some Manners Into Impolite Society
“You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.”
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“The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don't have it yet, pretend that you do. Pretend you're not nervous, pretend you're not scared, and after a while, the pretend part disappears.”
― The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
― The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
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