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Women Who Misbehave

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"fresh and easy to enjoy" — Mar 18, 2026 05:46PM

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“I am trying to find the courage to be tender in my life. I know violence is weakness. Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
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“Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.”
― John Green

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