"I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break."

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Source : Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

Jennifer Weiner

#Strong Quotes #People Quotes #Body Quotes

“Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.”
“For the public ever to break command science it must first understand the basis of its enormous powers.......Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has been based on the fear of disease, particularly infectious disease.”
“The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.”
“In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody”
“There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.”
“There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.”

Source : "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, April 30, 2016.
“Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.”
“My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.”

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