

“I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years”
― Just Above My Head
― Just Above My Head

“A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself ”
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is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself ”
―

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

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood

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