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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.

Erica Jong

There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Against Always Backlash Idea Progressive
Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Alone Creativity Demand Enough Less Nothing Talent You
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
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Endear Friend Love Misery Our
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
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
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
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
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
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Actually Believe Courage Cowardice Cynicism Height Innocense Many People Require Result Today
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
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Act Both First Name Oneself Poet Revolutionary
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
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anything Even More Risk Trouble

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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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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