"There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain."
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"Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion."
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"You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not."
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"For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time."
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"It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others."
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"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
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"Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me."
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"There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always."
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"Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine."
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"Heart is what drives us and determines our fate."
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"We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test."
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"You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich."
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"Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences."
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"For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men."
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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up"
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"Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both."
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"Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are."
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"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom."
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"You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell."
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"I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form."
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