“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Variant: A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
“I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”
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