Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. ― bell hooks

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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. ― Bell Hooks

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ― Oscar Wilde

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I think a lot, but I don't say much. ― Anne Frank

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Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. - Mike Davidson

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You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. ― Virginia Woolf

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One is not born a woman, but becomes one. - Simone de Beauvoir

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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. ― bell hooks

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