Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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