“Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness… Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through…”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Source: Radical Sanity: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women

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American author and journalist 1967–2020

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