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Deborah King Author
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"We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless."

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Dorothy Parker Poet, Writer, Critic
Taught

"...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink."

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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
Taught

"I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living."

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Clive James Writer
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"I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Taught

"Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner."

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