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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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Only when we accept fear will we have freedom.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

William Shakespeare

Cultivate a fearless approach to life, attack everything with boldness and energy.

Sensitivity is not possible if you are afraid of this, that, etc.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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