The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. -Marge Piercy

 

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.


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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

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The price of seeing is silence.

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A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

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[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

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