No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Erica Jong
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  1. Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't...

  2. I have accepted fear as part of life — specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

  3. The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

  4. Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

  5. Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

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