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A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all – it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I
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“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.”
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“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
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“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― The Plague of Doves
― The Plague of Doves
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
― You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
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Liv’s 2025 Year in Books
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