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“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.”
― Brene Brown

“Anger is really disappointed hope.”
― Erica Jong

“Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life. ”
― Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life

“If you are one of those people who believes that racism is a thing of the past, never existed at all, or is defined simply as one person being mean to another person, you are claiming that white people genuinely earn—through ability alone, because anything else would be a systemic advantage—twenty times as much as black people.”
― Lindy West, The Witches are Coming

“I am all for comfort, but does comfort mean loss of attractiveness or identity”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Facelifts: The Secret of Aging with Style & Attitude

“We’re always trying to own men we don’t got no control of.”
― Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

“When the power comes from within us and we claim it as our own, then we no longer have to affirm ourselves by dominating others. The irony is that we are actually afraid of our own power.”
― Marion Woodman, Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness

“In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
― Mae West