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    Anaïs Nin
    “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: men, women
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, men, women
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
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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
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: love, poetry, women
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    Jeanne d'Arc
    “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
    ― Joan of Arc
    tags: feminism, historical, inspirational, legendary, women
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    Margaret Atwood
    “We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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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
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    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
    tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight
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    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
    tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “The beginning is always today.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “My husband - my king.”
    ― Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/The Subjection of Women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"

    "Are you a young lady?"

    "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    tags: empowerment, expectations, gender, honesty, independence, influence, integrity, love, marriage, matrimony, propriety, respect, self-determination, self-respect, uprightness, women
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    “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
    ― Tehyi Hsieh
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, inspirational
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “It's your life-but only if you make it so.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: inspirational
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Steve Maraboli
    “If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: happiness, hero, humanity, inspirational, life, motivational, story, success
    296 likes

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    Eva Perón
    “I know that like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have”
    ― Eva Peron
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    Catherine II
    “I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.”
    ― Catherine the Great
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Charles Dickens
    “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: good-and-evil
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    Anne Rice
    “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: good-evil
    2869 likes



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