Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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