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Being Reshma
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Back in the day, women didn’t really work, and if they did it was probably because they had fallen on desperate times. Things have not changed all that much since.
“There’s no sadder place to be in this world than a place where there’s no hope.”
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
“Everything, I realized, is a choice. And spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.”
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
“Passion is...it's fire. And fire is great, man. But we're made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I'll pick water every time.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“sometimes life is so damn heavy the only choice is to laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.”
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
“I was born with the same gift from God we are all born with—the impulse to reach out and lessen the suffering of another human being. It was a gift, and we each had a choice whether to use this gift or not.”
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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