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Mireya Mayor

"I want to set the example my mother set for me: a strong female role model who faces challenges takes risks and conquers fears. I want my children to know that as women they can do whatever they dream as long as they believe in themselves. More than anything it is my responsibility to instill in my daughters the knowledge that they can have a family and everything else too."

Source : Mireya Mayor (2011). “Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer”, p.299, National Geographic Books

Mireya Mayor

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“I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.”
“The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.”
“I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.”
“Comparing [our] blessings [with others] is almost certain to drive out joy. We cannot be grateful and envious at the same time. If we truly want to have the Spirit of the Lord and experience joy and happiness, we should rejoice in our blessings and be grateful.”
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”
“To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.”
“That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.”
“On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.”

Source : Scott Turow (2014). “The Laws of our Fathers”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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