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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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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that wont pay the Bergdorfs bill. I think Ill move to somewhere life is cheaper. – Erica Jong

Category:
Poetry
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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

Category:
Poetry
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Erica Jong
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. – Erica Jong

Category:
Feminism
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Erica Jong
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Change
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If theres specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I cant change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. – Kathryn Bigelow

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Change

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. – Maya Angelou

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Change

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it – roaming the world. – Christian Bale

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Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow. – Gerald Vaughan

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