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“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."
[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]”
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[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]”
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“187. Is it a related form of aggrandizement, to inflate a heartbreak into a sort of allegory? Losing what one loves is simpler, more common, than that. More precise. One could leave it, too, as it is. -- Yet how can I explain, that every time I put a pin in the balloon of it, the balloon seems to swell back up as soon as I turn away from it?”
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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
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“We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light."
All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Bluets
All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Bluets
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