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A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

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I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.

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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

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Solitude is un-American.

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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

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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.

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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

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You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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