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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
- Jealousy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude is un-American.
- Nov 07, 2020
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
- Detested
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
- Opiate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Exploited
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
- Dash
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember everything but forgive anyway.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been able to control my public image.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
- Nov 07, 2020
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
- Bouncing
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- Nov 07, 2020
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
- Crazies
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
- First People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.
- Professionalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
- Met
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020