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“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“It was on the to-do list, but you know to-do lists. They get longer and longer until you might as well just carve the last items on your tombstone. Do the dishes.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“You are too young to understand it,” she said, “but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Some folks don't like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with 'em, I don't care if they don't like it. I do say I don't care if they don't like it, right enough - but I don't say the hell with 'em, see?”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for,”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.”
― Georg Simmel

“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
― Pierre Bourdieu

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People