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"You can love someone you mistrust."
— Emily Giffin (Baby Proof)

tags: baby, claudia, emily, giffin, love, proof
23 people liked it

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,539 people liked it

""t's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.""
— Stephen Chbosky

77 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,260 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,568 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion
4,037 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,780 people liked it

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
3,663 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
3,920 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,720 people liked it

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
3,171 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3,480 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,132 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,703 people liked it

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor
2,963 people liked it

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live
2,432 people liked it

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
1,434 people liked it

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured"
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: life
1,301 people liked it

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex
1,086 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
998 people liked it

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

tags: beauty, life
998 people liked it

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can."
— Nicholas Sparks (At First Sight)

tags: life, love
674 people liked it

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

tags: life
577 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,154 people liked it

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
1,245 people liked it

"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. "
— Betty Friedan

tags: feminism, housekeeping, orgasm, sex, sexuality, women
155 people liked it

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him."
— Cher

tags: marriage, women
103 people liked it

"Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?"
— Carrie Snow

tags: humor, marriage, men, relationships, single, women
62 people liked it

"you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgot to get old. "
— Charles Bukowski (Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977)

tags: women
61 people liked it

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolfe

tags: books, inspirational, love, truth
978 people liked it

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: anger, freedom, truth
748 people liked it

"On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: women
12 people liked it

"Only cowards torture women."
— Patricia Briggs (Raven's Shadow)

tags: cowards, torture, women
20 people liked it

"Hormones don't cause feelings, they just exaggerate them."
— Lauré Kendrick

tags: women
10 people liked it

""A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else." -Toyi Ward"
— Toyi Ward (Par for the Curse)

tags: help, self, women
8 people liked it

"A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally."
— Lillian Day

tags: humor, women
6 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,615 people liked it

"Women are sneaky."
— Patricia Briggs (The Hob's Bargain)

tags: humor, women
14 people liked it

"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. "
— Zsa Zsa Gabor

tags: marriage, paradox, wisdom
13 people liked it

"I am not a frilly, "let's go flirt with boys" type of girl. "
— Hannah Colvin

tags: women
4 people liked it

"I don't think any women truly knows how beautiful she is."
— Amber Hintz

tags: beauty, women
3 people liked it

"You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

959 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
391 people liked it

"May you live every day of your life."
— Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
503 people liked it

"Never, never, never give in!"
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance, wisdom
223 people liked it

"One Can't Have Wisdom Without Living Life"
— kianoush

tags: life, wisdom
61 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,897 people liked it

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

tags: friend, friendship
1,661 people liked it

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. "
— Roseanne Barr

tags: feminism, power, women
127 people liked it

"Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes."
— Mae West

tags: justice, women
94 people liked it

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