I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist. — Angela Davis

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. — Simone de Beauvoir

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The only thing I'll never have is what I have lost for ever and ever... As long as I live, until I draw my last breath, I shall remember Asel and all those beautiful things that were ours. The day I was to leave I went to the lake and stood on the rise above it. I was saying good-bye to the Tien Shan mountains, to Issyk-Kul. Good-bye, Issyk-Kul, my unfinished song! How I wish I could take you with me, your blue waters and your yellow shores, but I can't, just as I can't take the woman I love with me. Goodbye, Asel. Good-bye, my pretty poplar in a red kerchief! Good-bye, my love, I want you to be happy.

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones — Kristin Hannah

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Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. ― Jonathan Harnisch

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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

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The best revenge is to have enough self worth not to seek it. — Courtney Jarvis

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