Don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve. Do. Not. Allow. It.

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Don't be ashamed if you don't like what others pretend to love

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I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

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

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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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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

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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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Believe in yourself and go for it

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People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word.

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I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

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