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I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Hard Rigid Work Work Hard You

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I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

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I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

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Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Absolute Amusement Anymore Certainty Convictions Destiny Even Hard Hard Way Learned Looks Most Our Perhaps Pity Something Strive Way

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When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Around Days Experimental Feel Female Find Friends Giant Life Lives Look Maze Mice My Life Number Opportunities Our Sometimes Talents Though Through Trying Way

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My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

~Elizabeth Gilbert

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Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

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Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

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Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 18th, 1969

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