"For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed."

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Source : Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.8, Harper Collins

Caitlin Moran

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“Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.”
“Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.”

Source : "Living Successfully With Host Jacqueline M. Wood of E!’s Party On". Interview with Nova Lorraine, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2014.
“My stylist coached me on how to stand for photos. Always put one leg forward and a hand on your hip.”
“Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.”
“I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.”
“Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status, and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract, listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say it reminded him of be-bop. I said, 'Well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles. The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael. It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'.”

Source : "Excursions". Song by Kamaal Fareed (Q-Tip), September 24, 1991.
“Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.”

Source : David Douglas (1989). “Wilderness Sojourn: Notes in the Desert Silence”, HarperCollins

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