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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. – Erica Jong

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Women
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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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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. – Erica Jong

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Places
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Duty is what one expects from others. – Oscar Wilde

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Put on your big girl panties and deal with it. – Author Unknown

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Responsibility

We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes — mismatches between old expectations and current realities. – Anne C. Weisberg, Everything a Working Mother Needs to Know, 1994

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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. – Malcolm Forbes

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The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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