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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
"Nothing will work unless you do."
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
