"When I grew up, feminism wasnâ€™t something that was really talked about. Thereâ€™s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people donâ€™t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it."

-- Julie Zeilinger

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“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”
“Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.”
“Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.”
“There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we over-identify with it. If we laugh at it, we're saying, "Oh, I'm laughing at myself, which means my victimhood isn't all of who I am."”
“I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?”
“I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.”
“In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.”

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The Romance of the Harem”, p.114, Applewood Books
“The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.”

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