Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONGDivorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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