“Because adventure starts the moment I leave my door.”

— Gloria Steinem, "My Life on the Road"

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"Thunder is contrary. Thunder can intuit, and her action is the music caused by lightning. She comes because we ask, and that's why falling apart is holy."

— Terese Marie Mailhot, “Heart Berries”

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"When I mark myself with ink, or when I have that done to me, I am taking some part of my skin back."

— Roxane Gay, "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body"

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If I cry, I'll cry alone. But if we laugh, we can do it together.

Yusra Mardini, “Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph”  

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Love heals. Love heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

Maya Angelou, “Mom & Me & Mom”

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We had arrived, we had survived the nightmare, and now us lucky ones had found friends to help us carry on.

Yusra Mardini, “Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph”

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When I wrote, it was so easy to be happy.

Roxane Gay, “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body”

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Trying to forget damaged me the most.

Terese Marie Mailhot, “Heart Berries”

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I don’t believe the secret of being happy is living a life free of problems. It’s about being able to smile despite the hardships.

Yusra Mardini, “Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph”

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Boredom is a pleasing antidote to fear.

Daphne du Maurier, “Rebecca”

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Swimming is the best distraction.

Yusra Mardini, “Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph”

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If he was supposed to die, he hoped to die swiftly to spare the innocent.

Min Jin Lee, “Pachinko”

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It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly.

Caitlin Moran, “How to be a Woman”

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It makes for an interesting performance, attempting to both find yourself and lose yourself onstage.

Carrie Brownstein, “Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl”

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My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul.

Roxane Gay, “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body”

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— via Sabrina Mahfouz, “The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write”