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“Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.”
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“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.”
Source : BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
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“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”
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“She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.”
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“When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Walk out,†he repeated. “We need to talk.†“About how you need to sacrifice me to get a human body?†I asked, my tone light, my insides feeling leaden. “That might be cute if you thought it was true.”
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“I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.”
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“A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.”
Source : Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage