Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Home is where your books are.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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