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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

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They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out...more

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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We a...more

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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

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I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

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I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind fa...more

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The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

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Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more wall...more

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There are women’s voices that sound like poetic, unearthly echoes. Then they change. The eyes change. I believe that all these legends about people ch...more