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Book cover for Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn’t match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn’t what you hoped for, or what others expected. There was value in that. I wish teams celebrated this more.
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“To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think -- spend some time time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears. If you laugh, think and cry, that's a heck of a day.”
Jim Valvano

Abraham   Verghese
“Make something beautiful of your life.”
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain

Lloyd Jones
“I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates. ”
Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip

Steve  Martin
“I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.”
Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company
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