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 Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear. - Ovid  Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. The worst of all fears is the fear of living. No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole. If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35,000 a year. Obviously, that doesn't include food or lodging. For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her - and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me. It's good to play, and you must keep in practice. Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care. Sadness and gladness succeed each other. Better be happy than wise. Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. 
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