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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Acquire Always Courage Fear Most Taste Thing
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Affair Before Marriage Night Novel One Poem Short Someone Stand Story
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women
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
Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Earth Every Feel Itself Know Orphan Soul
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
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Like Something
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Being Between Body Create Different Do Drive Everything Human Little Men Office Only Simultaneously Tractor Women Work
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Block Emphasis Future Joy Merely Miseries Past Present Shadow
I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Abortion Again Back Battle Birth Going Hope Keep Over Right Same Territory Win
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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All Ambivalence Dance Own Rhythm Tune Wonderful
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Deal Humor Imposible Most One Series Situation Tool
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Always Cheerful Confident Envied Everything Friend Practical Secretly Seem Terrified
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

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