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Barbara Franklin

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“If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

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“You are the only one who’s going to be able to hold yourself to a higher standard, because no one around you will know the difference.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

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“I am in your midst, without apology. I’m here to stay. I’m here as I am. And if you have a problem with that—fuck you!”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

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“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“Each year I kept it quiet was another year where the shame and guilt grew. It was another year where I became more scared of someone finding out. It was another year where I got better at acting as someone else, wearing masks to protect the face underneath. I became so good at masking my emotions that no one would have ever guessed what was going on internally.”
― Perry Power, Breaking The Silence: Stories From Survivors Of Sexual Abuse

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