Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGThe 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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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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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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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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