Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

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I think our fears find us and force us to confront them over and over again.

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There's a Theodore Roosevelt speech about the importance of being in the arena, whether you fail or you succeed, or you make a complete idiot of yourself, as long as you're doing the best with what you have, using whatever knowledge you have to bring to the table at that moment. And you continue to keep learning. I think my mistakes have made me much stronger. It's nice to know that things don't ultimately break you; that you need to go there to know.

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There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

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There's nothing interesting about looking perfect.

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I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

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If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you

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If not me- who?, If not now- when?

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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself

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The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

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