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"Nobody at twenty-eight is a success or a failure. It's too early to figure out which way the tide's moving (Malkah, fifteen: THE SAME AS ME)

— Marge Piercy He, She and It (1991)

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Doorways are sacred to women for we
are the doorways of life and we must choose
what comes in and what goes out.

fragment of poem in Moon Is Always Female (1980)

Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.

Each good novel has a vision of its world that informs what is put in and what is left out.

Life of Prose and Poetry — An Inspiring Combination (1999)

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Dance the Eagle to Sleep (1973)

If you have contempt for people and think they cannot know what they want and need, who the hell is the revolution for?

The Grand Coolie Damn (1969)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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