"Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking."

-- Whitney Houston

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“It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.”
“Love is the recognition of beauty.”
“Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.”

Source : Tom Butler-Bowdon (2010). “50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus”, p.13, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.”

Source : "'Go ahead George, change it all': George Papandreou interviewed". openDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. October 5, 2009.
“And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together”

Source : Craig Silvey; (2018). “The Amber Amulet”, p.57, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
“Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.”

Source : "Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, reference.bahai.org. 1978.
“We live in a niche world.”
“Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!”

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