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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

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Besides Depend Intimacy Rare Really Sex Thing
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
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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Birth Courage Do Fact Love Mother never Quote She Want Wing Wings
Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Complete Creature Experience Feel Image Narrative Unless Record
I look forward and see myself look back.
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Back Forward Look Myself See
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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Busines Color Early Every Family Get Life Like Orgasms Someday Television Woman
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
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
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
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
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Can Delegate Finally Motherhood Not
The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Camera Chronicle Create Enough Exist Existence Magical Must Transformation
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
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
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
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

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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