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Phenomenal Woman
by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I’m telling lies.
I say,
It’s in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them,
They say they still can’t see.
I say,
It’s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

Now you understand
Just why my head’s not bowed.
I don’t shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing,
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It’s in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need for my care.
’Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.

1. “It is better to ask for Forgiveness than Permission” from LJ Gibbs and Eragon

2. Joe: “It wasn’t personal, it’s just business”
Kathleen: “What does that mean it wasn’t personal? All that means is that it wasn’t personal to you. Whatever else anything is it ought to begin with being personal.” from You’ve got Mail

3. Dear Lord, Give me health and strength, we’ll steal the rest – The West Wing

4. Why is foreign aid important? It moves democracy forward – The West Wing

5. If you’ve got it flaunt it – The Producers

6. The trick for me being happy is not to be wanting things, but to be satisfied with what you have. So anything else that comes along at this point is just gravy – Jay Leno

7. You can’t stop being who you are because you’re afraid – SATC

8. If you’ve got it flaunt it – Mel Brooks, The Producers

9. It’s never too late to do the right thing – What Women Want

10. Isn’t it amazing that no matter what, criticism is the only thing you really remember

11. Why do we let the one thing we don’t have affect all the things you do have? – SATC

12. “Isn’t Love supposed to be blind?” “Heck no, it’s just a little out of focus!” Nessa in Vegas

“Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin, get out there and enjoy yourself!” – Lilia

"Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections." - Jens

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Michelle

The more we define ourselves, the more we confine ourselves.”
-Me

“There are those whose destinies led them to stay home, and those whose destinies led elsewhere. The worst ones are the ones whose destinies led elsewhere, yet they never left home.”
-Me

“If life is a machine, hope is the raw material and memories are the product. The machine tends to be very inefficient.”
-Me

“I care less and less about what people think of me, and more and more about the people I think of.”

1. “Be the change you want to see in the World” – Mahatma Ghandi
2. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
3. “Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure” – Marianne Williamson.
4. Sometimes you have to stop worrying about how someone’s going to react and just say what’s on your mind.
5. I hear music in the heart of noise – George Gershwin about Rhapsody in Blue
6. “It’s only after you’ve lost everything, that you’re free do to anything” – Tyler Durden
7. “Addictions many times is a passion gone awry” – Rhonda Britten
8. “Don’t cry about money, it never cries for you. Money has no emotions, no tears, just reality.”
9. If you want to find something you have to stop looking – Zen poem

“For one human being to love another—that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

“Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.”
Wendell Berry

“The richest person is the one who is contented with what he has.”
Robert Savage

(from the Zietgiest)

“Happiness is having something to do, something to hope for, and someone to love.”
Ancient Chinese saying

“The main purpose of life is: To have a job in whose purpose you can believe; To have friends whose immediate purposes you can trust; To have some spot on earth to which you can return as home; To be at the same time a citizen of a larger world.”
James A. Michener

“Rest and be thankful.”
William Wordsworth

“What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me”
Rahel Varnhagen

“Americans need rest but do not know it.”
Betrand Russell

“Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other concievable action.”
Stendhal

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious”
Einstien

“If I am not I, who will be?”
Henry David Thoreau

“The artist is nothing without gift, but gift is nothing without work.”
Emile Zola, 19thcentury French Novelist

“I do not believe a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Jean Jacque Rousseau

“Life is not a paragraph.”
e.e. cummings

“Roots hold me close, wings set me free.”
-Carolyn McDade