Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGSomeday 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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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