"Life isnâ€™t like the movies. People donâ€™t change overnight. people donâ€™t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They donâ€™t suddenly give in when theyâ€™ve spent years taking out. No doesnâ€™t magically become a Yes."

-- Randa Abdel-Fattah

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“As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.”
“The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.”
“All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.”

Source : Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Mistress of Husaby: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.180, Vintage
“There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.”

Source : "The Jane Whitney Show", July 16, 1993.
“The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.”
“Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don't believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That's not how it works in America.”
“Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.”

Source : William Wilberforce (1797). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.424
“Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.”

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