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Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.

Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.
– Roxane Gay

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  2. Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. – CS Lewis
  3. Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest mother????er in the valley – Alex Garland
  4. the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life. – Emil M Cioran
  5. Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.Girl slips on headphones. World gone. – Kathleen Glasgow
  6. I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill – Roxane Gay
  7. Love your friends’ kids even if you don’t want or like children. Just do it. – Roxane Gay
  8. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all. – Roxane Gay
  9. … just one more reminder that the rules are always different for girls, no matter who they are and no matter what they do. – Roxane Gay
  10. This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive. – Roxane Gay
  11. I no longer want to believe these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them. – Roxane Gay
  12. When you can’t find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example. – Roxane Gay
  13. Better is not good enough, and it’s a shame that anyone would be willing to settle for so little. – Roxane Gay
  14. On the scale of relevance, public approval or disapproval of a woman’s choices should not merit measure. – Roxane Gay
  15. If people cannot be flawed in fiction there’s no place left for us to be human. – Roxane Gay
  16. Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. – Roxane Gay
  17. Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. – Roxane Gay
  18. To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance. – Roxane Gay
  19. Racism doesn’t care about respectability, wealth, education, or status – Roxane Gay
  20. I am quite content to be in my thirties, and nothing affirms that more than being around people in their late teens and early twenties. – Roxane Gay
  21. I don’t put that pressure on myself (to write every day), but I do tend to write every day. It’s not pressure-”it’s pressure release. – Roxane Gay
  22. Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose. – Charlie Huston
  23. Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles – Seth Czerepak
  24. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. – Charles ens
  25. Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,Sweet to the father is his first-born’s birth,Sweet is revenge–especially to women – George Gordon Byron
  26. Whether you’re at the peak or the valley of any given wave, remember that this too shall pass. – Dashama Konah Gordon
  27. This girl owns me, whether she realizes it or not. I’m a slave to her will. – Collette West
  28. I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control. – Emily Giffin
  29. I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! – Elizabeth Gaskell
  30. I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet. – Francine Pascal
  31. Hells yeah. You kidding? Gay men are hot. – Rachel West
  32. When you gain higher consciousness, your consciousness becomes universal and you become ageless, endless, and universal. – Debasish Mridha
  33. Your subconscious mind is the universal mind with a universal consciousness. – Debasish Mridha
  34. Boys are universal giver, women remains universal receiver. – Santosh Kalwar
  35. From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia. – John N Gray
  36. Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty. – JSB Morse
  37. Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them? – Idries Shah
  38. Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl’s life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life. – Sasha Alsberg
  39. If human lives be,for their very brevity, sweet,then beast lives are sweeter still… – Isobelle Carmody
  40. We can hardly get to the very far for the very far we can think of is the far we have not yet reach – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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