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“Because a man who argues is ambitious, but a woman who argues is just a bitch.”
― By Any Other Name
― By Any Other Name
“because he wished Okwudiba would see that to call him humble was to make rudeness normal.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. —COLETTE”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“Except theirs was the sort of love that best thrives when a husband and wife are separated by the distance of an entire continent. (“Don’t laugh,” my grandmother said. “A lot of marriages would work better that way.”)”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
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