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Gina Covarrubias

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Gina Covarrubias was born in Southern California a few days before the Manson Family trial began. Today she lives and writes in Las Vegas. No one has wasted more time, money, and energy on bad men than Gina, and every bit of it was her own fault.

Gina is the author of Friends to the End and I Do What I Want: The Unmotivated Young Woman’s Guide to Survival. Her short stories, essays, and poetry have been published in Hip Mama, Bust, Burning Angel, Clean Sheets, and in bestselling New York Times author Pamela Des Barres’s book Let It Bleed.

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	I Do What I Want: The Unmotivated Young Woman's Guide to Independence 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introducing Gina Assley it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Career Purpose: When Work Isn't Working for You: What to do when external success fails to meet internal expectations 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“If the job requires a drug test, make sure the urine you smuggle in belongs to a human. Dog pee isn’t going to fool anyone, and collecting it will not be as easy as you think.”
― Gina Covarrubias, I Do What I Want: The Unmotivated Young Woman's Guide to Independence

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“I don’t know any other good interview tips. It’s not like I have time to write books because I have a job.”
― Gina Covarrubias, I Do What I Want: The Unmotivated Young Woman's Guide to Independence

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“like that you have to buy paper towels and trash bags and they don’t just magically appear.”
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“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: alone, content, privacy, refueling, reprive, restoration, solitude, weekend

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“The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

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“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to her parents. Because the inner sense of badness preserves a relationship, it is not readily given up even after the abuse has stopped; rather, it becomes a stable part of the child's personality structure.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

tags: abuse, attachment, betrayal, betrayal-trauma, child-abuse, complex-ptsd, identity, incest, parental-abuse, personality, personality-disorder, self-stigma, stigmatization, victims

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