Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGIf sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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