If you've ever watched "Orange Is The New Black," you probably love it. You love the characters (most of them anyway), you love the drama, and you love the back-stories. But what those of you who have never seen the show don't know is that you'll learn quite a bit from these women behind bars. It's raw and straightforward. The pain, the joy, and the fear – it’s all there.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from the show that have shaped the way I live my life today:

1. "A person shouldn't do something out of obligation. If you're gonna do it, do it because you want it."

— Stella Carlin

2. “You don’t drink poison and wait for it to kill your enemy.”

— Galina "Red" Reznovik

3. “A real friend doesn’t dance around the subject; a real friend just tells it how it is.”

— Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett

4. “This year I’m loving someone who deserves me. Me.”

— Susanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren

5. “You can’t spend your whole life holding the door open for people and then being angry they didn’t thank you. Nobody asked you to hold the f*cking door.”

— Lisa Caputo

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