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The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

by Courtney Thorsson (Goodreads Author)

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“Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living.”
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“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.”
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“Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.”
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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

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