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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of

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. – Erica Jong

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There is still the feeling that womens writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. – Erica Jong

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Knowledge
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Erica Jong
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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting Hiawatha and they groan. – Erica Jong

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Poetry
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Erica Jong
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I havent got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. – David Sedaris

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. – Augusto Roa Bastos

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Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I dont think its going to happen soon. – Nick Clegg

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People can try to reinvent themselves. I dont think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what youve done up to now. – Eminem

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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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