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• Vanessa Diffenbaugh:

  We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to cha

• Vanessa Diffenbaugh:

  Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.

• Vanessa Diffenbaugh:

  I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home wit

• Vanessa Diffenbaugh:

  I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.

• Vanessa Diffenbaugh:

  I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted p

• Vanessa Diffenbaugh:

  The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdate

• Vanessa Diffenbaugh:

  There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and

• Vanessa Diffenbaugh:

  Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out someth

• Vanessa Diffenbaugh:

  The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

• Vanessa Hudgens:

  Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids