I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
From Erica Jong
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
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.
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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