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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, ... 
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I knew I loved you before I met you
Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other... 
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy. 
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. 
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any... 
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a... 
I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe... 
Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... 
I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#... 
In my end is my beginning. 
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. 
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One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ... 
When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that... 
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J... 
The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we... 
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... 
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci... 
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi... 
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. 
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are... 
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e... 
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again... 
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. 
But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a... 
A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ... 
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. 
The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. 
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain... 
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at ... 
to live in this world
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith... 
It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever... 
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t... 
The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well... 
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. 
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f... 
I have never been contained except I made the prison 
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. 
No pressure, no diamonds. 
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. 
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regar... 
A child is fed with milk and praise. 
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the fal... 
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to l... 
Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all. 
Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. 
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. 
One day you finally knew
In violence we forget who we are. 
It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. 
Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you. 
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at f... 
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beau... 
The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life a... 
Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. 
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. 
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves. 
The incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its premature demise. That stabil... 
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very s... 
The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace ... 
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. 
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. 
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