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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Always Cheerful Confident Envied Everything Friend Practical Secretly Seem Terrified
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Acquire Always Courage Fear Most Taste Thing
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women
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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Ever How Know Life Made Think Touch Understand
There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Against Always Backlash Idea Progressive
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
Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Empathy Excuse Other Our Trap Underpay
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Investment Love Marriage
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 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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Being Between Body Create Different Do Drive Everything Human Little Men Office Only Simultaneously Tractor Women Work
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Enemy Feel Guilt Guilty Man Sell Show Tortue Weapon Woman Women Worst
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Busines Color Early Every Family Get Life Like Orgasms Someday Television Woman
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Always Art End Interest People Reflect Sexuality Story Wn
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
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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Being Brave Crack Everything Fighting Live Risk Worth
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Despair Every Day Given Here Hillside House Lease Loan Me Minute Remember
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Dead Like Loneliness Marriage
I look forward and see myself look back.
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Back Forward Look Myself See
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Book Box Brimimg Incendiary Match Material Reader Strike
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
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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Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Must Given Something
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Gossip Opiate Oppress
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
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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Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
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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Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth

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