The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
ERICA JONGYoung 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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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 exhortation.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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