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    Audre Lorde
    “I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language."

    I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.

    Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end.

    And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: feminism, revolution, silence, speaking-out, truth
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    Brené Brown
    “Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.”
    ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
    tags: speaking-out, voice, women, women-s-strength
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: bravery, catholic, catholic-author, christian, citizen, citizenship, corruption, courage, defending-your-country, democracy, free-speech, freedom, freedom-of-speech, gadfly, injustice, justice, not-in-my-name, patriot, patriotic, patriotism, politics, protesting, protests, speak-out, speak-up, speak-up-and-step-up, speaking-out, speaking-up, standing-up, truth, unpatriotic, whistle-blower, whistle-blowers, whistle-blowing
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    “I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.”
    ― Whitney M. Young Jr.
    tags: determination, power, speaking-out, strength, voice
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
    tags: consequence, consequences, doubt, guilt, instinct, instincts, shame, speaking-out, voice
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    Nadège Richards
    “And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.”
    ― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles
    tags: individualism, lessons, life, life-lessons, love, speaking-out, your-voice
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  • #7
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #9
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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  • #12
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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  • #13
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    George Carlin
    “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
    ― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
    tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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    Samantha Shannon
    “I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.”
    ― Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising
    tags: fear, imagination, over-thinking
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    Susane Colasanti
    “I hate days like this. Like when minor thing happens but it gets all huge in your head and ends up bothering you for the whole rest of the day.”
    ― Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
    tags: over-thinking
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    SupaNova Slom
    “Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.”
    ― Supa Nova Slom, The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body
    tags: attitude, attraction, couples, etiquette, etiquette-and-attitude, frequency, friends, happiness, love, manners, mentality, moodiness, moods, over-thinking, positive-thoughts, positivity, relationships, thinking, vibe, wisdom
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  • #21
    Colleen McCarty
    “I'm tired of being inside my head. I want to live out here, with you.”
    ― Colleen McCarty, Mounting the Whale
    tags: get-out-of-your-head, love, obsessive, ocd, over-analyzing, over-thinking, relationships, together
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: alienating, bad-memories, blaming-others, broken-records, brutal-truth, bury, burying, dating, degrading-yourself, distancing, drowning-others, family, family-conflict, fights, find-joy, finding-focus, focus-on-positive, forget-it, forgive, friends, funeral-director, funny, give-it-up, happiness, hating-others, humor, hurting-others, issues, joyful-living, let-go, let-it-go, letting-go, life-coach, life-coaching, love-one-another, move-on, moving-on, obnoxious, over-thinking, paranoia, peace, relationships, rotted-corpse, siblings, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: anger, ego, misinterpretation, misunderstand, misunderstandings, overthinking, pain, perception, perspective, questions, reading-into-everything, reading-into-things, second-quessing, self-esteem, self-improvement
    1058 likes

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  • #24
    Anthony Hopkins
    “We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”
    ― Anthony Hopkins
    tags: overthinking
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    Habeeb Akande
    “The more you overthink the less you will understand.”
    ― Habeeb Akande
    tags: overthinking, understand, women, worrying
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  • #26
    “The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.”
    ― Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading
    tags: convictions, eyes, life, notion, overthinking, race-of-life, running, statement
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  • #27
    “Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place.”
    ― Jayson Engay
    tags: deep, deep-thoughts, facts, overthinking
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  • #28
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To think too much is a disease.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground & The Double
    tags: mental-health, mental-illness, overthinking
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  • #29
    “Overthinking will not empower you over things that are beyond your control. So, let it be if it is meant to be and cherish the moment.”
    ― Mahsati A
    tags: face-the-reality, live-in-the-moment, overthinking, selfempowerment
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  • #31
    Chris Cleave
    “I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself”
    ― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
    tags: anxiety, intelligent, overthinking
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