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Jaya Quotes

10 of the best book quotes from Jaya
01
“Though there is no playbook on how to navigate the path of life, if I do it with the grace and heart of the women before me, the I will have lived my life with honor.”
02
“If their stories transplant them to faraway lands, I will encourage them to take the journey.”
03
“History shows us we need labels to help define our place. For hundreds of years, people have categorized others as less so they could feel like more. Color, gender, class, religion, physical handicaps, sexual orientation, and pedigree are just a few ways in which one group is divided from another. ”
04
“For every person who stands superior, another must be inferior. But what does it say of us as a human race when we push others down for our own needs? Does it accomplish the intended goal or simply give rise to a pattern of behavior that can never be broken?”
05
“The same blood runs in every human on the earth. You just have to see past the variations in skin and culture.”
06
“But I opened my mind and came to appreciate that even in fiction there can be morsels of truth.”
07
“A mother cannot give birth to a child and not lose a piece of herself. The child takes a part of the parent with them, holding it as their own. Whether it be their heart or soul, they are now connected for always.”
08
“Blood does not define family. Love does.”
09
“With humility may I reap my own power, and at the end of the journey, I hope I learn when to stand small so others can feel tall.”
10
″ It was sobering to learn of a woman one generation removed who lived a life I can’t imagine or understand.”
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