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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad
    “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: humor
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    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    ― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
    tags: life, life-lessons
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    L. Frank Baum
    “There is no place like home.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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    Stanley Kunitz
    “The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.”
    ― Stanley Kunitz
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    Washington Irving
    “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
    ― Washington Irving
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: insanity, love, marriage
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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
    tags: past
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    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
    tags: wisdom
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon, V.
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    Robert Browning
    “Who hears music, feels his solitude
    Peopled at once.”
    ― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning
    tags: music, power-of-music, solitude
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    Orson Welles
    “My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
    ― Orson Welles
    tags: dinner, humor
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    Christopher Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls
    tags: bibliophilia, books
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    John Ford
    “Revenge proves its own executioner.”
    ― John Ford, Broken Heart
    tags: revenge
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    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: baths, deeds, depression
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: brain, mind
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
    tags: heroes, inspirational
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: beauty, class, fashion, girls, women
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    Coco Chanel
    “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: dresses, fashion, women
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    Coco Chanel
    “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
    ― Coco Chanel
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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
    tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
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    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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    Mae West
    “When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
    ― Mae West
    tags: goodness, sexuality, virtue
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    Mae West
    “Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.”
    ― Mae West
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