And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
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- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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- 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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.