I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Audre Lorde

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Do one thing every day that scares you.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

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Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

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