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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

Erica Jong

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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Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
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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Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Come Dog Live Love Loyalty
Home is where your books are.
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Book Home One Liner
In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Life Love Survive
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Create Death Life One Represented Someone
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Being Cease Control Fear Fearful Let Me
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Away Drive Easier Goodbye Saying
I look forward and see myself look back.
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Back Forward Look Myself See
Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Courage Have Magic Only Worth
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Any Courage Lead Life Take
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Blame Hand Happen Life Own Take Terrible Thing
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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Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Beacon One Piece Sex Travel Vowed

I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

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