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Jackie Kennedy- "We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them."

Amelia Earhart- "The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

Katherine Johnson- "Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men."

Eleanor Roosevelt- "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Betty White- “Everybody needs a passion. That’s what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go though life without leaving any footprints.”

Cher- "If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life."

Serena Williams- "Whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.”

Cleopatra- "I will not be trying triumphed over."

Jane Lynch- You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

Eartha Kitt- I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

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My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.

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“Plans are made. Plans come apart. New delights or tragedies pop up in their place. And nothing human or divine will map out this life, this life that has been more painful than I could have imagined. More beautiful than I could have imagined.”

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The hardest lesson to learn always is to just have faith in that you will always have something to say or a story to tell. I have faith that I'll be able to continue to tell stories, write and tell stories. You just need to keep going at it.

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“Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself”

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You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.

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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

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“I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.”

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https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/elder-freda-smith
The first lesbian pastor in the US

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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

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“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”

“I don’t hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.”

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Love “Ain’t I a Woman”

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“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

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You're so right --- it's hard to find brief quotes of hers but here are a few:

Because in the end, we aren’t punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins.

Whenever people annoy me beyond reason, I can guarantee it’s because they’re demonstrating something I’d rather not see in myself.

I realized that sometimes the best thing we can do for each other is talk honestly about being wrong.

It’s about how God continues to reach into the graves we dig for ourselves and pull us out, giving us new life, in ways both dramatic and small.

But we’ve lost the plot if we use religion as the place where we escape from difficult realities instead of as the place where those difficult realities are given meaning.

the holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us.

the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

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Mariska Hargitay, founder of Joyful Heart Foundation.   Glennon Doyle Melton, founder of Together Rising.

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Mariska Hargitay, founder of Joyful Heart Foundation.   Glennon Doyle Melton, founder of Together Rising.

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"What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it."

Also, she's the inspiration for "Nevertheless, she persisted."

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