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  • #1
    Emily Dickinson
    “Anger as soon as fed is dead-
    'Tis starving makes it fat. ”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
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    Jean Rhys
    “I thought if I told no one it might not be true.”
    ― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
    tags: reality, secret, tell, true, truth, wide-sargasso-sea
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  • #3
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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  • #4
    Robin Wall Kimmerer
    “Our indigenous herbalists say to pay attention when plants come to you; they’re bringing you something you need to learn.”
    ― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
    tags: knowledge, plants
    104 likes

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  • #5
    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
    3850 likes

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  • #6
    Mother Teresa
    “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: change, community, incrementalism, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world, yourself
    1963 likes

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  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
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  • #8
    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
    1671 likes

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  • #9
    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch
    You Change.

    All that you Change
    Changes you.

    The only lasting truth
    is Change.

    God
    is Change.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: change, god
    1396 likes

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  • #10
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: feminism
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  • #11
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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  • #12
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love
    639 likes

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  • #13
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex
    tags: feminism
    521 likes

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  • #14
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: charity, compassion, generosity
    613 likes

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  • #15
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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  • #16
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
    tags: diaries, importance, omissions, truth
    496 likes

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  • #17
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    431 likes

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  • #18
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    381 likes

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  • #19
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    333 likes

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  • #20
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    294 likes

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  • #21
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    235 likes

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  • #22
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
    tags: conforming, daughters, expectations, fathers, ideals, perception
    230 likes

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  • #23
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    208 likes

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  • #24
    Confucius
    “The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: futility, knowledge, religion
    732 likes

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  • #25
    Confucius
    “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: adversitiy
    610 likes

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  • #26
    Confucius
    “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
    ― Confucius, The Book of Rites
    tags: art, music, power-of-music
    691 likes

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  • #27
    Confucius
    “It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: inspirational
    555 likes

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  • #28
    Confucius
    “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
    ― Confucius
    491 likes

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  • #29
    Confucius
    “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.”
    ― Confucius
    160 likes



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