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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.

Erica Jong

As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Direction Face Long Matter Right Size Step
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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Again Battel Depress Fight Heath Over Partly Right Win Women
The soul is awakened through service.
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Awakened Service Soul Through
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
Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Drop Every Time Feel Five Hit Hundred Leave Mouth Plain Pocket Stomach
In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Life Love Survive
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
Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Emotional Image Kind Shorthand
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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Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
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
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend
A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Big Dog Expand Heart Love Many Merely never New Old replace Very
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Anything Dilemma Even More One Risk
Art is always an energy exchange.
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Always Art Energy exchange
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Doing Fera Right Sign Something Usually
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
Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Courage Have Magic Only Worth
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Firm First Follow Go Home Live Long Minute Porno Reaction Screw Ten
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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Believe Death Men never Own People Possibility Reason Send War Young
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Endear Friend Love Misery Our
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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Accept Ahead Back Change Despite Fear Heart Part Pound Say Specially Turn
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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Carry Momentum Own Word
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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Enemy Feel Guilt Guilty Man Sell Show Tortue Weapon Woman Women Worst
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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Crack Cynical Everything Love People Something Subsesive Tell Want
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

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