Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGThe greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Home is where your books are.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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