So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and...
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Charlotte Eriksson
...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.
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Pearl Cleage
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Veronica Roth
The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm.
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Roy T. Bennett
The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
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Roy T. Bennett
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Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it.
I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.
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A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.
I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.
