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“I am not the kind of girl who runs away from things just because they’re hard.” - Sarah Kuhn

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Ella Chamberlain

"She is strict but I will prove myself to her. And then my mother will have a new dress, shoes for the cold season, even a new shawl made of the finest yarn. My little brother will have fruit and curds twice a day and a jacket of yak fur. Even my step father can get a new tin roof, will be the shiniest one on the mountain side."

-Sold

By Patricia McCormick

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"How can a white girl know what the braid means to an African man, how a braid factors into the girls value of a bride, her beauty and quick tongue, her education, her prospects as a mother. Her virginity. All these things add value. How this white girl know?"

-The Good Braider by Terry Farish

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Lindsey Johnson

"My mothers final words to me were " 'Be strong' ". On one hand , I could not believe she was leaving me there"

- Hidden Girl

By Shyima Hall

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Heidi Fripp

("Are you wearing lipstick?") "As a matter of fact yes. Luluwongs noir red. The silver screen starlet and our hometown celebrity had the dk-red shade made vegetarian for her."

-Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee

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Maddy Mazzone

"Familia takes care of familia. We're going to make it"

-What Can't Wait by Ashley hope Perez

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"His stories gave us courage;we were no longer sick and hungry creatures, but comrades of these dashing men. When I heard my fathers voice in our dark house, it would feel as if his arms were around me again and all was right with my country. I would soon come to miss those nights very much."

-Under the Same Sky

by Joseph Kim

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"And it's when I'm standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mom and my dad, kneeling before God, that I feel a strange sense of calm. I feel like nothing can hurt me, and nothing else matters." -Does my Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel Fattah

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Lydia Koivula

"I was worried that he would take all his anger out on me, so I went toward the door and stood in the shadows, hoping he would not see me on his way out"

-A Life Less Ordinary-Baby Halder

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"I, Nujood, ten years old- I have chosen to answer a question. And this choice is mine alone."

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Cassie Vaughan

"I can't do whatever I want. I can't be whatever I want. No matter what, someone I love will get hurt."

- Love Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

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Sofia Ashburn

"Don't you know anything?"

-> "I know a lot of things."

- When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

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Natalie Afinowicz

" 'your dad, man oh man, he shoulda been a counselor. Anyway, I got an invite to eat at your house anytime I want. a standing invitation.'

His smile was breaking my heart."

- The inexplicable logic of my life by Benjamin Alire Sanez

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Olivia Phillips

¨In a hut built for outcasts

Live women who combed up their own hair

Independent spinsters strong as mountain pines,

Capable women merciful as Gwoon Yum.

Talk to them and you will know

That for daughters with courage and vision,

Old laws can be swept aside,

New laws can be made¨

- The Moon Pearl by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

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Jenna Sitors

'What is the truth? That I'm a failure and a fraud and more fragile than I thought? Or that I'm fearless. That I'm strong. I stare down at my arms, looking past the scars at the veins underneath. Purple and pulsing with life. I rise to my feet, remembering the way my father gripped my hands. The way he begged me to fight. And then that's exactly what I do" ~Something Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp