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“It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“You have a brand whether you cultivate it or not,” he explained, while opening a document to take notes. “You’re in the arena. People are watching. Having clarity around who you are, what you stand for, and how you want to be understood is not egotistical. It’s a chance to take stock of things and be intentional.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“Books were her salvation. As a child, she’d had a shelf of childhood favorites that she loved enough to read over and over again. But after, during the hospital stay and the long voyage and the cold days in Idlewild’s dreary hallways, books became more than mere stories. They were her lifeline, the pages as essential to her as breathing.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“Books, Sonia had decided, were what she would live with when she finally left this place. She would work in a library—any library, anywhere. She’d sweep the floors if she had to. But she’d work in a library, and she’d read the books every day for the rest of her life.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“It was infuriating how many people got things wrong about you when you were a teenage girl, but as she had learned to do, Katie took her anger and made it into something else.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“There was no Internet, no way to raise outrage via a Twitter campaign, no digital cameras with which one could take a photo and send it worldwide in seconds.” And that left Ravensbrück abandoned and dismantled, forgotten.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“This isn't the ending I dreamed of, sure. But when you realize failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“We should never want to become anyone else, because the greatest fulfillment we can ever get out of life is by becoming the best possible version of ourselves.”
― Alexi Pappas, Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas

“It’s called the Rule of Thirds. When you’re chasing a big goal, you’re supposed to feel good a third of the time, okay a third of the time, and crappy a third of the time. If the ratio is off and you feel good all the time, then you’re not pushing yourself enough. Likewise, if you feel bad all the time, then you might be fatigued and need to dial things back.”
― Alexi Pappas, Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas