What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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