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“Giving with no expectation of a return is the only way to give,” he said. That is, of course, the absolute truth, although I had not thought of it before.”
― Delia Ephron, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

“Women are at the forefront of that kind of revolution now—a paradigm shift away from a gendered value system where the male experience is at the center of reality and all other ways of being, thinking, feeling, and doing are at the periphery.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“That means questioning the words we speak every day, as well as the contexts in which we use them—because without realizing it, something as simple as an address term or curse word might be reinforcing a power structure that we ultimately don’t agree with.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language