Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
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I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel -- as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can -- then I am nothing.
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As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
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I have a problem about being nearly sixty I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
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Power is the ability not to have to please.
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The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
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We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
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