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• Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
• Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the…
• Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
• It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to…
• To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here…
• There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the…
• The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge…
• What a joy it is to dance and sing!
• Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
• Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman…
• A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
• Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

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