"As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay."

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Source : "Confessions of a Gay Christian Country Singer" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

Chely Wright

#Girl Quotes #Gay Quotes #Age Quotes

“The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.”
“Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn't exist, but by refusing to give it decision-making authority.”

Source : Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Find the Quest that will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.35, Pan Macmillan
“A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.60, Criss Jami
“I struggled academically throughout elementary school”
“Whatever is not stone is light”
“Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.”
“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.”
“Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.”

Source : Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”

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