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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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