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.
ERICA JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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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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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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