“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”

— Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

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victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929–1945

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