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Hello Laura, Rose, Mercy, and whoever else is reading this

First I want to say thanks to all you dearies. All your posts were awesome and I really enjoyed hearing all that nice stuff about me ;)

I've been thinking a lot about this post since last week because I tend to think a lot and that's just who I am, but I've kind of not been really sure what I was going to post about until it hit me. Laura is hormonal, Rose is angry at lots of things, and Mercy and I haven't had much self confidence in the past week so I thought I would post some nice motivational quotes by people a whole lot cooler/smarter than me.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.
I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…
I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. ... Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”

Read Books. Care about things. Get Excited. Try not to be too down on yourself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

To live a creative life, we must lose the fear of being wrong.

Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It is about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and most importantly, a beautiful soul.

People are going to judge anyway, so forget everyone and be [create] yourself.

I found these quotes from multiple different sources but I think they all kind of tie into each other and are summed up pretty nicely with the last one, which I edited to tie in with what Mercy and Hank Green have talked about this week. 

We need to focus on creating ourselves and sharing that creation with others and not worry about what people think of it. Because those who don't like it can find someone else to talk to, but there are some who will like that creation and some who will love that creation even with all it's flaws and it's socially awkwardness. (In the long run though, I think everyone is socially awkward resulting in no one being socially awkward. But that's a whole entire different post). Also, I really like that JK Rowling quote about being fat and skinny. I agree with it 110%. What is with girls throwing the word fat around as if it's the worst insult ever? I think it's worse to consider fat a bad thing, than to be fat. If that makes sense. 

Being fat isn't bad! Being unhealthy is. But if someone is naturally a big person that's not a bad thing. Just all those anorexic girls who are wasting away to nothing think it is. Not that I think being skinny is bad. Again, being unhealthy is. And Mercy before you start spewing things, no I don't think I'm fat. But I'm also not anorexic and I understand the difference and even if I'm not fat I still side with the 'fat is not a bad thing' view. Plus, who decides if a person is fat or skinny? How do people get deemed with the label fat? Not that it's a bad label, but who decides these things?

Also, I don't think being pretty is a bad thing. And I also don't think that every single pretty person is useless. (Obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be friends with any of you)

Rose, I also wish I lived before highways. That would be cool. And not all scientists are bad. Just most of them.

Laura, we'll see you on Monday. <3 Grace