Big Difference, Help, Dependent, Make You Independent, Gloria Steinem

“Every woman knows there is a big difference between help that is designed to keep you dependent, and help that is designed to make you independent.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page93.

Mystery of Grace, It Meets Us Where We Are, Anne Lamott

“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.” ― Anne Lamott

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Many Ways, Going Forward, Standing Still, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_101696.

Lose Someone, Your Heart Will Be Badly Broken, Broken Leg, Learn to Dance, Anne Lamott

“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” ― Anne Lamott

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Leave Something Behind, Change Something, Ray Bradbury

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

"It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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Real Courage, Gun, Know You're Licked Before You Begin, Atticus Finch, Harper Lee

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." - (Atticus Finch) ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Found on Goodreads, at https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3275794-to-kill-a-mockingbird.

What Our Bodies Can Do, More Important, How They Look, Sports, Gloria Steinem

“What our bodies can do is way more important than how they look. Sports help young women realize that our bodies are instruments, not ornaments.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 37.