Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONGPeople 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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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