I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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