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The trouble with Clare was not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.
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“We move not on but forward.”
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“We can learn from trauma. We can become better, more efficient, if we do the work.”
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“I don’t think you’re ever really grown.”
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“Similarly, I owe a great deal to my female ancestors and the women who mothered me.”
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“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
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