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    Louis Sachar
    “I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.”
    ― louis sachar, Holes
    tags: holes, zero
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    Brigham Young
    “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
    ― Brigham Young
    tags: education, feminism, men, women
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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
    ― Rebecca West
    tags: feminism, qotd
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    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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    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: katharine-hepburn
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    Madeleine K. Albright
    “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

    (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
    ― Madeleine Albright
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
    tags: change, life, self
    2071 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13954 likes

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    Katharine Hepburn
    “I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: gender-roles, independence, self-reliance
    475 likes

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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
    7240 likes

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    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: follow-your-bliss, self-actualization
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    4979 likes

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    Katharine Hepburn
    “What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: chocolate
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “What in the world would we do without our libraries?”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: libraries, library
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    Mae West
    “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
    ― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
    tags: ambition, disobedience, empowerment, girls, goodness, naughty, promiscuity, risque, self-determination, wickedness, women
    2061 likes

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    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.”
    ― Katherine Hepburn
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: conscience, innocence
    2879 likes

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    Mae West
    “I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “Never complain. Never explain.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
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    Mae West
    “Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
    ― Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
    tags: bachelorhood, double-entendre, empowerment, freedom, independence, institutions, marriage, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, singles
    1334 likes

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    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: marriage
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.”
    ― Katherine Hepburn
    tags: parenting
    57 likes

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    Katharine Hepburn
    “You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
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    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
    21196 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81985 likes



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