I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

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Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says, Catch up.

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Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

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Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

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One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.

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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.

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It is technically a failure when you don't try.

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Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.

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