Joanne
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A good work ethic is nothing compared to the inner confidence of a man who has never been taught to doubt himself and has no reason to consider that he might ever be wrong.
“failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher.”
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“Sarah Vine, writing in the Daily Mail, admitted a different view of the duchess, who had set up a stall next to the main wedding marquee promoting her range of teas: ‘The woman is utterly incorrigible. And yet. There is something about her indefatigable, indestructible nature that I can’t help but admire. Something in her propensity for pratfalls of her own making that makes her so much more human than other royals.’ Vine likened her to ‘a human Labrador: clumsy, over-excitable, greedy, prone to causing breakages with her constantly wagging tail – but ultimately impossible to remain angry with for all that long’.”
― Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
― Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
“You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”
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“This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be seen and not heard, and if we are seen, we should be pleasing to men, acceptable to society. And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear, but it’s something that needs to be said, loudly, over and over again, so that we can resist surrendering to what is expected of us.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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