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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

Erica Jong

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONG

Anything Avoid Love Say Want You
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Being Cease Control Fear Fearful Let Me
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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Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Book Call Classic Grow Nature Patiently Shell Them Wait
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
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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Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Author Become Famous Know Personality Shakespeare Writer Wrote
Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
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
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Advice Already Answer Ask Know Wish
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Age Believe Close Consciousness Enjoy Every Fictional Identity Own People Read Time Transcend Whether
Solitude is un-American.
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Country Place Solitude
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
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

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

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