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Not only do candles create a light that’s truly relaxing and inviting, but smells like lavender, fir, lemon, and eucalyptus can instantly change your mood.

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For a while, I felt like two people: the perfect young lady, and me. After a while, I didn’t even want to be both.

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It is time, ladies, to stop apologizing for who we are and what we love. It is time to be real. The time for setting aside socially acceptable expectations is now. The time to stop saying “I’m sorry” is now.

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3. Know what is going on in the world.

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Do not assign moral value to food items, on your own plate or anyone else’s. A mozzarella stick is a mozzarella stick, and nothing more.

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A lady always has a smile on her face. She is smiling when she is with her dearest friends. She smiles at waiters and waitresses. She also smiles at the thief who is robbing her of her purse.

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You wish that men, for once in their lives, could be judged as a whole by the actions of one, or deemed just slightly less human because they had sex with just one too many people.