The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGReally true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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