Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip, that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

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"It was my father who taught me to value myself."

- Dawn French

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"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life."

- Dawn French

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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