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What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
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When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.
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Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.
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The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.
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Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles.
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One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
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Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.
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Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.
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Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.
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A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.
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