A thoughtful expression crossed the woman’s damp face. “I used to beat myself up over my body. What woman doesn’t?” She paused, as if thinking about her words. “I finally decided I’d had enough. It was time to believe in me, without shame. I still slip up and have doubts. But for the most part, I take pride in who I am.
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Related A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never l... NICHOLAS SPARKS I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good ab... ELLEN DEGENERES Losing Abby wasn't a story I remembered from early childhood--it was in my face, debilitating me lik... JAMIE MCGUIRE If I’d had any doubts about how Archer felt about me, they were eradicated when I saw the look on ... RACHEL HAWKINS It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let... GLEN CAMPBELL I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! A... GASTON LEROUX I like that I'm in shape but still look like a woman. I don't feel like I've had to give... MIESHA TATE She was not as stupid as some I have had, and better company, but still perhaps her going was for th... KAREN CUSHMAN And one day, as she was buried deep in her thoughts, she heard a still small voice ask her
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo... ANGELA RICHARDSON I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggl... SHERWOOD ANDERSON Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking ... KATHERINE HANNIGAN The woman raked her gaze up his body as if checking out livestock. As she reached his face, her kohl... BRYNN KELLY Abby touched her palm to my cheek. "You know what, Mr. Maddox?" "What, baby?" Her expressi... JAMIE MCGUIRE I want to apologize to you,” she says calmly. “Oh yeah? For what?” I don’t have time fo... LAUREN OLIVER years. I kept remembering all the times I’d teased her or called her father a fornicator or simply... NICHOLAS SPARKS Just because I’ve been gone from this country for most of my life doesn’t mean I understand it a... FIONA ZEDDE I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... SARAH DESSEN My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested ... MARIO TESTINO Sean: My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasie... GOOD WILL HUNTING She makes me a stronger sprinter because I have to keep up with her. If I can keep up with her and b... ESHA WANAMAKER [T.J.] Without thinking, I held them out to her. She stopped laughing, and looked at me like she was... TRACEY GARVIS-GRAVES You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?”Oh God. She wants to know if I... KIM HARRISON It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I... JOHN GREEN I must admit I had my doubts. If it had been any other boss but Ping, I probably would have bailed. ... BLACK ROB I was thinking about going for the green in two, but I had a bad lie so I decided to lay up. I am pl... LORENA OCHOA I truly believe that there's a little bit of Rosa Parks in all Americans who have the courage to say... CHARLES RANGEL I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself wa... RAY BRADBURY Jonathan Drazen," I said, squeezing his hand. "You're a manipulative bastard, a brazen liar, and a s... C.D. REISS The woman raked her gaze up his body as if checking out livestock. As she reached his face, her kohl... BRYNN KELLY I wanted to be with her, like all the time. Eliminate the obstacles, the people and things in our li... JULIE ANNE PETERS I grab on to her wrists, pull them away from her face and kiss her lips, lips that can’t kiss me b... KATIE MCGARRY Do you love me?' I asked her. She smiled. 'Yes.' 'Do you want me to be happy?' as I asked her this I... NICHOLAS SPARKS I could see she had a great deal of pride in what I am doing, but she still questions it. ALAIN WEBER Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she... MARGUERITE YOURCENAR I looked up from the ground and glared at Scarlett, who helped Steven stand up. “You bitch.” I g... SARA MASSA Her doctors could not believe she was still alive and functioning as well as she was. She was really... ALLISON BAILEY I finally squint up at the face above and am relieved to find, not a wolf, but a woman, just like me... COURTNEY SUMMERS Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a crampe... MARCEL PROUST When she sat, she crossed her hands and ankles perfectly. Yes, yes, everything was in the classroom.... MARY WORONOV I believe in doing what I am best at. N. T. RAMA RAO, JR. I don't myself believe in a two-state solution. I believe in a one-state solution. EDWARD SAID A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a det... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just... SYLVIA PLATH What was she like?" I tell the truth. "She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding... NICHOLAS SPARKS I do not allow anybody to hurt me without my permission, because, I believe in no expectations, no d... USMAN AMAN I do not allow anybody to hurt me without my permission, because, I believe in no expectations, no d... MUHAMMAD USMAN AMAN Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of... WENDELL BERRY I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It w... JANET JACKSON I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU ...I managed to make it clear that what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured m... ROBERTSON DAVIES I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Finally getting control of myself, I kissed her again, then brought my hand to her face, gently runn... NICHOLAS SPARKS Chubs didn’t have to finish. I knew what I’d been when I’d found them: a terrified splinter of... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I grew up watching my grandmother sew things. . . . She never threw things out, she fixed them with ... ELEONORE FAUCHER She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow... NICHOLAS SPARKS After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip in... MARY BALOGH The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, fou... GEORGE ORWELL In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had lea... CAMERON DOKEY The Old Woman and the Physician
An old woman having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician ... AESOP My parents have always worried that I’d take Amy too personally — they always tell not to read t... GILLIAN FLYNN Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?" "I want to look at you and remember wha... JODI PICOULT I don't know if that's actually the case, but it makes her feel better to say that. At least she sti... JEANNIE GALINDO All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I... ANNE RICE Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I've lived with God every day for a long time. When I got busted in 1987 I turned myself in because ... HARRY HAMLIN For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors cl... MAYA ANGELOU So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We... JOHN GREEN I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w... JOHN SCALZI I have somebody I admire and want to keep at a distance. I've had the opportunity to meet her a ... TIG NOTARO I’d never actually talked to a deaf person before but I’d been swimming and gotten water stuck i... PAUL NEILAN I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me... ZOOEY DESCHANEL I take pride in it and I do think about it. It's hard to put in words, but [watching black hockey pl... JAROME IGINLA I used to listen to all the voices in my head that told me I wasn’t good enough, or that I would f... SCOTT STABILE I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. Sh... KENNETH LONERGAN She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was s... JOHN GREEN I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and bu... DONNA MILLS I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am... HENRY MILLER Mum was determinate to crush my spirit and put a stop to my behavior once and for all and she beat m... JOE PETERS I stood beside the U-Haul, and I just watched her. I stared at her while she looked on with the sadd... COLLEEN HOOVER I hated my face, for example, found it odious, and even suspected that there was some mean expressio... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY In the power of my newfound strength, I saw clearly—even though I’d been empowered to have my ol... ASPEN MATIS I often wonder what she's thinking," says Ed, still gazing up at her. "That's quite an intriguing ex... SOPHIE KINSELLA Meeting her sharp glance, which was as sharp as ever when she asked me, I could not on that short ch... CHARLES DICKENS I tried!” She screamed, her eyes filled with raw emotion. All Sarah could do is stand there, speec... ZOE SANTANA Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obey... TAMORA PIERCE I hoped my solitude would help me reclaim my innocence, remember who I’d been, to find who I wante... ASPEN MATIS I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit. FELIX ROHATYN I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. WHOOPI GOLDBERG So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We... JOHN GREEN I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet corne... ROBERTSON DAVIES
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ABBY ARLEDGE In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent eve... ABBY ARLEDGE I'm used to it. I'm used to kind of getting shoved in the back row behind the hitters. I like it. I ... ABBY ARLEDGE I get a lot more playing time than I have in the past. I think it has made me a lot better player, g... ABBY ARLEDGE I think it really just helps out our team because you have one person in there the whole time, so yo... ABBY ARLEDGE It's always more expensive to do something than nothing. But in the long run, it will be less expens... ABBY ANDERSON People assume it's being tough on crime, but what you're doing is throwing these kids away. Studies ... ABBY ANDERSON When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit crimes. ABBY ANDERSON They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behin... ABBY ANDERSON It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big ... ABBY ANDERSON When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role... ABBY WAMBACH I think there's so much emphasis on body image and results and outcome, but really what you shou... ABBY WAMBACH From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my... ABBY WAMBACH Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength... ABBY ESPIRITU Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you g... ABBY WAMBACH My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cu... ABBY WAMBACH My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just k... ABBY WAMBACH I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect. ABBY WAMBACH I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if yo... ABBY WAMBACH Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground... ABBY WAMBACH Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you. ABBY WAMBACH I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I w... ABBY WAMBACH I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort ... ABBY WAMBACH One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and j... ABBY WAMBACH I think this one is going to get us ready for Capital again. I think before with them we've been hes... ABBY WORLAND We've always come out strong in the first against them, but never really put it away. We let them st... ABBY WORLAND We're really frustrated because we knew we were so close and we weren't even playing our game. It's ... ABBY WORLAND Just to know what to do and what to look out for. ABBY SMITH I just believe my best asset is as a defensive player. On the free throws, I really wanted to make t... ABBY SMITH These barrier islands are in many places the first line of defense for the mainland. If we have anot... ABBY SALLENGER There is reason to believe this particular set of islands have been pushed over the edge. ABBY SALLENGER We're reviewing it right now. ABBY OTTENHOFF I missed some shots at the beginning of the game, but I knew I had to keep taking it to the basket. ABBY OLIVER The first day, I played really good. I hit almost every green, and I hit two 30-foot birdie puts. To... ABBY OBERTHIER We had a lot of motivation for tonight. We had tough practices to get ready for this one. It was a b... ABBY MYERS