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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.

Erica Jong

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Act Age Crumb Disable Little Paranoid Power Utterly Women
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Bluntest Instrument Silence
Solitude is un-American.
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Country Place Solitude
I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Intimacy Necessarily Produce Sex Think
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
Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Freedom Gain Loss Loving Much Someone Think
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Colour Neither Sex Soul
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Besides Depend Intimacy Rare Really Sex Thing
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
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Blame Hand Happen Life Own Take Terrible Thing
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Fear Need Ourselves Sufficient Unto Web
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
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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All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Bullfight Church Circus Country Deserve Every Country Get Hollywood People Person

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.

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