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Aphie

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Aphie’s Quotes

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

tags: courage, life

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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
― Mae West

tags: humor

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Our Shared Shelf — 222875 members — last activity 6 hours, 55 min ago
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more