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- Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
- It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
- Mary Daly
- To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
- Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
- George Tooker
- Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
- Brenda Ueland
- Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
- Michele Shea
- If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
- Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
- Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
- Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
- The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
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