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“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.”
Dag Redwing hickory Bluefield
Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008), p. 163
The Sharing Knife, Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008)
“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”
Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed
“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.”
Part 4 : The Masculinization of Wealth, p. 196
Moving Beyond Words (1994)
Excerpt from the foreword in Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks http://www.gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/99_00/99girlboss.shtml, by Stacy Kravetz (1999)
1990s
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
Source: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
Source: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
“Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.”
“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
This derives from a folk proverb sometimes attributed to Clementine Paddleford, but in use as an "old proverb" as early as 1908, when Paddeford was only 10 years old.
Misattributed
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
Source: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
“The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole”
“The best protection any woman can have… is courage.”
“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”
Variant: Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
