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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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 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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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 burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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