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The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

by Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)

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The Message

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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“I had worked so hard to get my head above water, only to look around and discover I was in the big, freaky ocean, alone.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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“Some men's childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

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“One of the great injustices of this rigged world we live in is that women are considered to be depleting with age and men are somehow deepening.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

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“She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

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“Distance swimming is like a lot of things in life," Pringle told the audience that day. "There is no substitute for preparation, for training, for putting in the miles to build strength and endurance. But none of these elements really matter if you're not in the right frame of mind.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

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