8 Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert about women
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the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.
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Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
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I had wanted more, and I had not wanted more. A familiar old tale, from the lives of girls.
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When women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be
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I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a pound of potatoes, boiled them up, sliced them, fried them in butter, salted them generously and ate every bite of them - asking my body the whole while if it would please accept the satisfaction of a pound of fried potatoes in lieu of the fulfillment of lovemaking.My body replied, only after eating every bite of food: "No deal, babe.
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This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.
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At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.
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Famously, Gloria Steinem once advised women that they should strive to become like the men they had always wanted to marry. What I've only recently realized is that I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.
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