~ Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~  ~ Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ~ ~ Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer. ~ ~ Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer. ~ ~ Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world ~ ~ Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ~ ~ Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ~ ~ Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. ~ ~ 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 risk anything, you risk even more. ~ ~ Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. ~ ~ Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted ~ ~ Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ~ ~ Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. ~ ~ 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 risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Most Popular Topics:
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