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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we ...  
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its o...  
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.  
Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis in tiny and h...  
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everyt...  
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Ital...  
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent...   Art
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.  
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.  
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ...  
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.  
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of chan...  
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control...  
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I th...  
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activi...  
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.  
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough f...  
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liqu...  
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.  
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.  
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth...  
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first 10 minutes I...  
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.  
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.  
Solitude is un-American.  
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: ...  
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash...  
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.  
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized i...  
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a...  
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thi...