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    Isabel Allende
    “you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”
    ― Isabel Allende
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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.”
    ― Georgia O'Keeffe
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    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    “I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
    ― Isaac Bashevis Singer
    tags: chicken, vegetarianism
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    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    “People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.”
    ― Isaac Bashevis Singer
    tags: ethics, vegetarian, vegetarianism
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    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    “To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.”
    ― Isaac Bashevis Singer
    tags: animal-rights, animals, vegetarian
    200 likes

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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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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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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
    6528 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
    12754 likes

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    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, men, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “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
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: men, women
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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way- things I had no words for.”
    ― Georgia O'Keeffe
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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.”
    ― Georgia O'Keeffe
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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “To create one's own world takes courage.”
    ― georgia o'keeffe
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    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: life
    2672 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
    5696 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
    2339 likes

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    Isabel Allende
    “We only have what we give.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others
    539 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Etgar Keret
    “A word is a lot.”
    ― Etgar Keret
    tags: explanation, life, love, monologue
    41 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
    12574 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
    4559 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “I dwell in possibility…”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: possibility
    1087 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “This is my letter to the world
    That never wrote to me”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: compassion, people, social-anxiety
    1474 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: inspirational
    874 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: poetry-dogs
    682 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Emily Dickinson
    “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: inspirational, writing
    689 likes



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