Quote by Anaïs Nin
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, w

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anaïs Nin

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin

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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. – Jane Fonda

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Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? – Lynn Hecht Schafran

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