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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

Erica Jong

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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Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
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
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
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
Art is always an energy exchange.
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Always Art Energy exchange
Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
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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Being Experience Gone Human Spritualm Through
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Book Call Classic Grow Nature Patiently Shell Them Wait
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Act Age Crumb Disable Little Paranoid Power Utterly Women
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Against Always Backlash Idea Progressive
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
I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Intimacy Necessarily Produce Sex Think
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Excuse Full Life Live Pain
As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Direction Face Long Matter Right Size Step
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Flesh Learn Lesson Merely On Pass

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