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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
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Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.
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Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
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What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
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As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
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Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
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One cannot make up stories one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.
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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
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Male friends do not always face each other they stand side by side, facing the world.
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
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Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
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Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
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People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.
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The journey is over. Love to all.
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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
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