Quotation of the Week

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

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"The woman who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been."

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"Meaning isn't something you discover, it's something you create, one step at a time."

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"Blessed are those who see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing."

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"Defy mediocrity."

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"My belief is that every step an individual or a company can take towards being more environmentally conscious is another step in the right direction."

Ivanka Trump

Quotation of the Week

"'How do you juggle it all?' People constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. 'You're screwing it all up, aren't you?' Their eyes say. My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent, but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I've poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away." 

— Tina Fey

Quotation of the Week

"I like things that are worn. I don't like newness... I still wear old things. And I wear new things. And the old things that I love are non-fashion. There's a timeless quality and an unfashionable sensibility... They're utility, the things you wear to work in, they're things that have sort of an honesty."

— Ralph Lauren

Quotation of the Week

"This world demands the qualities of youth: Not a time of life, but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite of adventure over the life of ease."

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"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything because it's all written there."

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"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."

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“There is no beauty in youth … Beauty begins where youth leaves off. I am not decrying youth. I love it. It is fresh, charming, gay, inspirational. Youth works hard and laughs easily. It is always surrounded with the promise of beauty. But always that promise is in the future ... Only when time has laid its softening hand on youth — when experience, love, suffering, living have ripened the green peach — can there be completion and loveliness.”

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"Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities — something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life." 

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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it." 

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"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."

Quotation of the Week

Madeleine Peyroux: Smile by Charlums

"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief." 

— William Shakespeare

Passage of the Week

"As an American, I want to speak up for women in my own country — women who are raising children on the minimum wage, women who can't afford health care or child care, women whose lives are threatened by violence, including violence in their own homes.


I want to speak up for mothers who are fighting for good schools, safe neighborhoods, clean air and clean airwaves; for older women, some of them widows, who have raised their families and now find that their skills and life experiences are not valued in the workplace; for women who are working all night as nurses, hotel clerks, and fast food cooks so that they can be at home during the day with their kids; and for women everywhere who simply don't have time to do everything they are called upon to do each day ...


We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. That is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential."

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"The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way."

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"She's spontaneous. She's ballsy. She has no clue what she's doing, and she doesn't care."

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"I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar, it can crumble so easily, but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it."