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“But maybe winning isn’t the point. Maybe the point is that we tried. That we didn’t just let it happen without a fight.”
“Psychologists call it “learned helplessness” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“If you can’t beat fear, just do it scared.”
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“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
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