The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGIt 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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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