“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
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“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”
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“We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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