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“Am I making a mistake? Maybe. But it's mine to make.”

Book:The Sun Is Also a Star

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“When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment "flattens the terrain of power relations." In other words, we can talk about doing it for us until our high-end lipstick flakes off, but we should also keep in mind that we probably wouldn't even be thinking about what life would be like with a new nose or perkier breasts or shapelier inner thighs if it weren't for a long-standing cultural ideal that rewards those who adhere to it with power that often doesn't speak its name, but is instantly recognizable to those who don't have it.”

Choices Feminism Expectations Plastic Surgery Appearances

Book:BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine

Source: BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine

“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”

Death Dead

Book:The Cuckoo's Calling

Source: The Cuckoo's Calling

“The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop.”

Life Choices Addictions

Author:Alix

“We choose who we will be; how we will act.”

Choices Identity

Book:Elven-Jumper

Source: Elven-Jumper

“Your future will be determined more by choice than by chance.”

Choices Chance Choice Your Future Choices And Consequences Choices You Make Choices Quotes Choices In Life Choices And Attitude Chance Quotes

Book:Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“I am not a good person. But I am a person. I make my own choices.” •pg.181 - Kovit”

Choices Good Person Bad Person Kovit

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side wins? Love wins. Love always wins.”

Love Life Choices Struggle

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--" Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't... August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters.”

Life Values Choices Meaning

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“People always say in the end you only regret the choices you didn't make but I really think you also regret the choices you were foolish enough to make.”

Humor Choices Regret Decisions Regrets Choices And Consequences Choices Quotes

Author:Melizena

“People say that it's the big decisions that are important... that these are the type of issues worthy of prolonged consideration. But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction.”

Life Choices Consequences

Book:Saltwater Moons

Source: Saltwater Moons

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