Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONGIn 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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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