Long enough have you dream’d contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life. -- Walt Whitman

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If you own this story you get to write the ending. — Brené Brown

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Marvel is really about the stories of Peter Parker and Bruce Banner or Jessica Jones. These are - I'm hesitant to say the word, but - real people with real problems whose power comes, to use the great expression, with great responsibility. - Jeph Loeb

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There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description. - Charles Spurgeon

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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart. ― Erma Bombeck

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You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. - Bryant H. McGill

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Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power. — William James

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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. ― bell hooks

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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves. ― Mary Wollstonecraft

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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