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When Women Were Dragons

by Kelly Barnhill (Goodreads Author)

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All About Love: New Visions

by bell hooks

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“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: protection, silence, speech

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Unir leitores e falantes da língua portuguesa, não importando se é nativo ou de outro país. Não é obrigatório que todos os livros citados sejam em por ...more

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Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more