As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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