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 To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.  A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bust-line, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity. I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver. The bluebird carries the sky on his back. I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds, and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills. There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment- and surprise. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it. Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing. I feel there are two people inside me-me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely. Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness. I arose a mother in Israel. - Bible We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know. When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. Courage - fear that has said its prayers. People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop. Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire. The future is a great land. Fear is not an unknown emotion to us. 
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