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If 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 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.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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