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"Orange insists on showing how women—through wile, wisdom or wit—find solace in each other as they negotiate their constant invisibility and vulnerability in the prison system."

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She was excited. She was hopeful. She was eager. And that has been crushed. She has the right to have some feelings. She can be positive tomorrow.

Grey's Anatomy, "Shiny Happy People"

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Comforter

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"I’m an introvert and I’m not here for small talk."

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/07/im-not-mad-im-an-introvert/

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In fact, terrified of telling anyone, she lived out her fantasy in secret, pretending to be disabled whenever she was home alone. “I’d bandage up my legs and make pretend splints out of an old metre-ruler and, my favourite, a piece of track from a model railway,” she says.

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This tree took the porch off a neighbor's house

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Still thinking about being a tattooed lady who (a) wants more tattoos, and (b) doesn't want to talk to strangers about any of them.

Female Tattoo Artist of the 1910’s

Introducing the first known female tattoo artist in America.

Maud Wagner was the first known female tattoo artist in the United States. Little is known about this awesome vintage lady, however according to The New Yorker, Maud traded a date with her husband-to-be Gus Wagner in 1907 for tattoo lessons. Now that’s impressive!