You can't be the nice little girl you were taught to be in childhood and expect to achieve your adult goals.
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Sometimes you just need to be selfish to be self-sufficient.
Tags: self-help, self-love, self-sufficiency
Money per se does not make you happy - it's what it enables you to do with your life.
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As I mentioned earlier, women get mixed messages in childhood: You can do anything you want... but it wouldn't hurt to find someone who will take good care of you.
Tags: women-quotes, childhood
Being a girl is certainly easier than being a woman. Girls don’t have to take responsibility for their destiny. Their choices are limited by a narrowly defined scope of expectations. And here’s another reason why we continue to exhibit the behaviors learned in childhood even when at some level we know they’re holding us back: We can’t see beyond the boundaries that have traditionally circumscribed the parameters of our influence. It’s dangerous to go out-of-bounds. When you do, you get accused of trying to act like a man or being “bitchy.” All in all, it’s easier to behave in socially acceptable ways.
Tags: attitude-toward-life, women-writers, girl-quotes
Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters.
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