"I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are."

-- Roxane Gay

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“There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.”
“The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion”
“The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.”
“I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did.”

Source : "Teen Mom’s Farrah Abraham Wears Blonde Wig, Talks Plastic Surgery". US Magazine Interview, www.usmagazine.com. November 20, 2012.
“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.”
“If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?”
“I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.”
“There is a constant and intimate contact among the things that coexist and co-evolve in the universe - a sharing of bonds and messages that makes reality into a stupendous network of interaction and communication.”

Source : Ervin Laszlo (1999). “The Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science”, Element Books, Limited

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