“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”
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“We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves,”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
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