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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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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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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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