"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
-Alice Walker
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"I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'“
-Alice Walker
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
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