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#1

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

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#2

“Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: an-open-mind, an-open-world, open-mindedness, opening-your-mind, travel, traveling

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#3

“The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself!”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: bravery, courage, know-thyself, learning, overcoming-fears, self-discovery, self-knowledge, the-journey-of-self-discovery, traveler, traveling, travels

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#4

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women

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#5

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: writing

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#6

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
― Gloria Steinem

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#7

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: marriage

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#8

“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#9

“Laughter is a rescue. p.204”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#10

“Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: class-distinction, inspirational

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#11

“We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#12

“I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#13

“Even the dictionary defines adventurer as “a person who has, enjoys, or seeks adventures,” but adventuress is “a woman who uses unscrupulous means in order to gain wealth or social position.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#14

“The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#15

“Close your eyes and pretend you are living with a woman—how would you divide the housework?”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#16

“Only food and water are more important than music and privacy,”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#17

“Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#18

“Always look at what people do, not who they are.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#19

“In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we’ve laughed.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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#20

“We felt like the Taliban saw us as like little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He would not have made us all different.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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#21

“If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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#22

“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

tags: education

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#23

“I remembered a tapa my grandmother used to recite: 'No Pashtun leaves his land of his own sweet will, Either he leaves from poverty or he leaves for love”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

tags: land, love, pashtun, religion, tapa

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#24

“As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

tags: education, education-for-women

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#25

“Its as if you planted a tree and nurtured it - you have the right to sit in its shade.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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#26

“Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

tags: education, inspirational

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#27

“Learn the literal meaning of the [Arabic] words; don’t follow his explanations and interpretations. Only learn what God says. His words are divine messages, which you are free to interpret.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

tags: god, interpretation, religion

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#28

“What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

tags: feminism

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#29

“I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion”
― Caitlin Moran

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#30

“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

tags: clothes, women

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