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.
ERICA JONGThe 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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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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