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A Feast of Quotes from 21 Inspiring Women
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” — Nora Ephron
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” — Virginia Woolf
“When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first — it’s easy to find when you’re looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don’t care who you are! I know we’re all pieces of the same thing. I go for that common light because I know it’s in all of us.” — Dolly Parton
“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” — Anaïs Nin
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I…
