"I've always had that going on: "I can't," and then I do, so the voice says, "Well, that was an exception!" It's a tug-of-war between two voices: the one who knows she can and the one who's scared she can't."

-- Lupita Nyong'o

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“I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.”
“Freedom from something is not freedom.”
“Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.”
“As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.”
“I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.”
“I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.”

Source : Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.9, Vintage
“Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a manâ€™s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”
“Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.”

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