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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Empathy Excuse Other Our Trap Underpay
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Away Drive Easier Goodbye Saying
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Create Death Life One Represented Someone
You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Creative Gitl Good Still
I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Intimacy Necessarily Produce Sex Think
Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Author Become Famous Know Personality Shakespeare Writer Wrote
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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Block Emphasis Future Joy Merely Miseries Past Present Shadow
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Along Come Hit Keep Mine Person Right Say Truck
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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Carry Momentum Own Word
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Crack Cynical Everything Love People Something Subsesive Tell Want
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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Big Dog Expand Heart Love Many Merely never New Old replace Very
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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Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
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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Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Book Box Brimimg Incendiary Match Material Reader Strike
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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City Liquid Migrate Mirror Once Soul Stone
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Did Die Love Only Simple Truth Wish
Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Complete Creature Experience Feel Image Narrative Unless Record
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Act Age Crumb Disable Little Paranoid Power Utterly Women
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Again Battel Depress Fight Heath Over Partly Right Win Women
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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Believe Death Men never Own People Possibility Reason Send War Young
I look forward and see myself look back.
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Back Forward Look Myself See
We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Being Experience Gone Human Spritualm Through
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Endear Friend Love Misery Our

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