We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONGI 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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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Home is where your books are.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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