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The Summer Queen (Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)

by Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)

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“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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“Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: christmas, secular, separation-of-church-and-state

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“Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, Close Kin

tags: humor

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“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton

tags: be-yourself, self-awareness

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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