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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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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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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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