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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thi

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. – 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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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. – Erica Jong

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Blame
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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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You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it. – Ken Keyes, Jr.

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The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility. РGiosu̩ Borsi

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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. – Gerald W. Johnson

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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. – Colin Powell

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The best time to make friends is before you need them. – Ethel Barrymore

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