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“You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Blade

tags: dmitri, honor

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“God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.”
― Drew Barrymore

tags: self-image

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“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

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“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot