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“Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that they are beautiful? Self esteem is not a beauty cream that you can rub all over them and see instant results. Instead, convince them they are not stupid. Every intelligent woman knows outward beauty is a nip, tuck, chemical peel or diet away. If you don't like it, fix it.”
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“Father didn't expect us to sew,
or play with dolls like other girls.
Instead he gave us the books our mother had written,
and encouraged us to read.
He taught us independence is admirable,
and imagination indispensable.”
― Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
or play with dolls like other girls.
Instead he gave us the books our mother had written,
and encouraged us to read.
He taught us independence is admirable,
and imagination indispensable.”
― Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
“My smart and kind and beautiful girl.” He liked to say that, had been saying it for years, and had always put “beautiful” last. Whether it was true or not, he'd tell me it was the least important of the three. “You are smart,” he'd say. “You should be kind. And if you are, you'll always be beautiful.”
― Wild Hunger
― Wild Hunger
“Don't raise your girls to be porcelain roses protected behind a cabinet's glass sliding doors. Raise your girls to be wild roses growing on mountaintops, exposed to the sunlight and to bees. I give you this guarantee: that life requires the latter and the prior is a myth.”
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