"Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns."

-- Dorothy Allison

#Knowing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Only great people can make great products.”
“A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.325
“A beautiful woman can make herself look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure.”
“We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.”
“I try not to bore my readers.”
“Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.”

Source : "Fashion Police Star George Kotsiopoulos Talks Best Holiday and Winter Trends". Interview with Chrissy Lorenzo, www.justluxe.com. December 29, 2011.
“What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?”
“Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played.Â Itâ€™s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome”

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