Why does life need evidence of life?
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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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