Others said it long before me, and much better.

―Gigi Bousquet Williamson, May 2019

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” 
― Henry David Thoreau

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“Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power.”

-– Shonda Rhimes

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"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

―William Faulkner

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"To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life."

―Carrie Chapman Catt

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“Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

―Leo Tolstoy, "The Emperor's Three Questions"

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“And you're not going to get comfortable

before you get uncomfortable.”

― Verna Myers, TEDxBeaconStreet

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“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”
― Red Smith, To Absent Friends

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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

--Soren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety

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"I always meant to be a writer from my earliest recall, and like all such people I lived from infancy in the world of stories and books, most of them fantasy. When I began to outgrow fantasy history seized me by the throat and has held on ever since."

―Marcia Davenport, Too Strong For Fantasy