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“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.”

“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”

“my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”

“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.”

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less”

“We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

“I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say "yes women can".”

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.”

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

“I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.”

“Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”

“There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”