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“Don't let the opinions of others define who you are. Take them into consideration, make adjustments if necessary and then go be you!”
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“At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.”
Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
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“A woman should always stand by a woman.”
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“There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.”
Source : "September 11, 2001 : Attack on America". DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 30, 2001.
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“Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.”
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“My quiltmaking is sandwiched, moved about, displaced between other activities and the crosscurrents of people's movements inside the place I live.”
Source : Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns
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“To suffer together is to suffer with beauty.”
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“One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.”