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#1

“I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.”
― John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back

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#3

“I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.”
― John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back

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#4

“Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.”
― James Franco, Palo Alto

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#5

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: inspirational, running

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#6

“and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”
― Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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#7

“A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.”
― Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

tags: carver, hooks, no-hands, viewfinder

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#8

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver

tags: heart, human-passion

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#9

“To reiterate, no matter how much pepper you eat, it won’t undo the ludicrous amount of salt you ate before it.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half

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#10

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#11

“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.”
― Marc Jacobs

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#12

“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#13

“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

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#14

“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

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#15

“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

13230 likes

#16

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn

tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem

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#17

“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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#18

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: dreaming, dreams, excitement, imagination, inspirational, planning, possibility

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#19

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: aging, feminism, radicals, women

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#20

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: gender-equality, gender-roles

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#21

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”
― Gloria Steinem

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#22

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”
― Gloria Steinem

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#23

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: feminism, womens-rights

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#24

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”
― Gloria Steinem

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#25

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: person, right

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#26

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”
― Gloria Steinem

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#27

“One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!”
― Gloria Steinem

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#28

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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#29

“Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: humor

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#30

“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: bossypants, tina-fey

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#31

“If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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