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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 by exhortation.

Erica Jong

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Besides Depend Intimacy Rare Really Sex Thing
Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Far Fear Foolish Future Humankind Most
I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Age Believe Close Consciousness Enjoy Every Fictional Identity Own People Read Time Transcend Whether
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Anything Far Interesting Life More Plot Say
I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Brighter Could Darkest Even Just Know Night Special Star Think Truly
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Like Something
If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Carry Momentum Own Word
And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Forgiveness If Want What
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Did Die Love Only Simple Truth Wish
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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Block Emphasis Future Joy Merely Miseries Past Present Shadow
The 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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Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Birth Courage Do Fact Love Mother never Quote She Want Wing Wings
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Beat Beaten Best Herself Need Slave
The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Again Battel Depress Fight Heath Over Partly Right Win Women
Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Drop Every Time Feel Five Hit Hundred Leave Mouth Plain Pocket Stomach

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