Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and nonlearners.”
Source: The Reader's digest vol. 140, no. 837-842 (1992), p. 159
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