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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.

Erica Jong

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Age Believe Close Consciousness Enjoy Every Fictional Identity Own People Read Time Transcend Whether
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Being Every Excuse Judge Look Procrastinate Scare
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Being Brave Crack Everything Fighting Live Risk Worth
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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Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Acquire Always Courage Fear Most Taste Thing
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Intimacy Necessarily Produce Sex Think
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Creative Gitl Good Still
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Airplane Athlete No Turbulent
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Blame Hand Happen Life Own Take Terrible Thing
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Book Box Brimimg Incendiary Match Material Reader Strike
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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Being Between Body Create Different Do Drive Everything Human Little Men Office Only Simultaneously Tractor Women Work

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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