"I love overcoming challenges and fear."

-- Laura Wilkinson

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“The fear and anxiety of baring my soul is transcended by the thrill and honor and wonderfulness of being able to touch and affect so many people... having people look into my mind, my imagination... into my heart and soul.”
“I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens,”

Source : "China's first female astronaut shows how 'women hold up half the sky'" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.
“You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.”
“It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.”
“To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history.”
“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”

Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.14, Library of Alexandria
“Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.”

Source : "Alice in Walkerland: The “PBS American Masters”". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. February 10, 2014.
“People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.”

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