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J.K. Rowling
“Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

C. JoyBell C.
“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
― C. JoyBell C.

Kelley Armstrong
“You forget, darling.
I am the local psychopath.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Bitten

Caitlin Moran
“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

Marilyn Monroe
“If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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