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Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame

by Tara Brach (Goodreads Author)

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The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

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Calling in "The One" Revised and Expanded: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life

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The Shortest Day

by Colm Tóibín

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“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day, spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. I want, I think, to be omniscient.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

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“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

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“A male editor I once worked with tried to dissuade me from the personal: "Who care about what happened to you?" The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

It does.”
― Mona Eltahawy

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“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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“I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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