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“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.”
― Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World

“Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.”
― Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World

“Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.”
― Sonia Sotomayor

“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“The fiction, as always, is secondary to the history; the real women are always more complex and more conflicted, greater than the heroines of the novel, just as real women now, as then, are often greater than they are reported, sometimes greater than the world wants them to be.”
― Phillipa Gregory

“I don't embrace excuses. I embrace SOLUTIONS”
― Jon Taffer