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#1

“Every day is a fresh start; don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles.”
― Dagny Scott Barrios, Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for Any Distance

tags: inspirational, running

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#2

“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

21188 likes

#3

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

10631 likes

#4

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

3692 likes

#5

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, men, women

4697 likes

#6

“Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants. We are selling ourselves unbelievably short.”
― Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

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#7

“if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress”
― Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

7 likes

#8

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

37373 likes

#9

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
― J.M. Barrie

tags: failure, learning, moving-on, self-criticism, success

1051 likes

#10

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

tags: existentialism, failure, inspirational

812 likes

#11

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion

1984 likes

#12

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

tags: american-dream, misattributed-to-john-steinbeck

1304 likes

#13

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
― Charlie Chaplin

tags: inspirational

967 likes

#14

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

tags: chauvinism, misogyny, projection, sexism

868 likes

#15

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

5165 likes

#16

“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

tags: communism, equality, marxism, social-justice, socialism

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