Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

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I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

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Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

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I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

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Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

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Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

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And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

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I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

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You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

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Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

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