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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Act Both First Name Oneself Poet Revolutionary
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Come Dog Live Love Loyalty
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
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
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Advice Already Answer Ask Know Wish
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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Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand
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
The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Camera Chronicle Create Enough Exist Existence Magical Must Transformation
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Anything Currency One Remember Show Use Wants Worth
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Believe Element Function Our Unhappiness
Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Hope Implies Journal Keep
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Along Come Hit Keep Mine Person Right Say Truck
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
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
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
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

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