Anaïs Nin
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying 
that I can’t be loved as I am.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.    
Adrienne Rich

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Frida Kahlo

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

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Georgia O'Keeffe
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

 

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

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Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.    
Judy Garland

Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Julia Child
 

​When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

Madonna

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Margaret Atwood
Men often ask me, 'Why are your female characters so paranoid?' It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.

 

All these things set a standard of behavior that you don’t necessarily wish to live up to. If you’re put on a pedestal you’re supposed to behave like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.​

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Marie Curie
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
 

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​Maya Angelou
All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, 
or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. 
And that’s how I am guided.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
 

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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
Tina Fey

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.     
Virginia Woolf