Life has this in common with prizefighting if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
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Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledged - desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend.Carolyn Heilbrun
One cannot make up stories one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
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Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
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As E.M. Forster so brilliantly put it, 'It is difficult, after accepting six cups of tea, to throw the seventh in the face of your hostess.' Sometimes the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously contemplate getting out, doing the impossible, flinging the conventional tea.
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