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reason #5: writing to reclaim your story
"The past shaped the present, but the present also reshaped the past." — Nadja Spiegelman
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reason #4: writing to make a difference
“A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood
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reason #3: writing to find your voice
"When you speak from your heart, everyone who has one will listen." — Marianne Williamson
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reason #2: writing to remember
“We write to be free. We write to remember ourselves.” — bell hooks
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reason #1: writing to witness
“The journal became a mirror that helped me know myself better.”
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reasons for writing
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” —Maya Angelou
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write what's true now
“Even when I am afraid, I will show up and speak my truth.” — Alex Elle
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lost and unlost
“You will be lost and unlost, over and over again. Relax, love the unfolding.” — Nayyirah Waheed
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between chapters
“You are no longer who you were, but not yet who you will be. You are becoming.” — Brianna Wiest
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life in transition
“Maybe you are being called to give up the life you’ve known, for the life that is calling you.” — Valarie Kaur
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doing less to receive more
“We are not meant to push ourselves through life, but to be pulled by a thread of aliveness.” — Toko-pa Turner
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telling the truth
“The writer’s job is to tell the truth. I believe that if all writers were to tell the truth, the world would change.” — James Baldwin
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