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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Erica Jong

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONG

Anything Avoid Love Say Want You
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONG

Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONG

Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONG

Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONG

Book Box Brimimg Incendiary Match Material Reader Strike
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONG

Being Cease Control Fear Fearful Let Me
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even More Risk Trouble
The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
ERICA JONG

Again Battel Depress Fight Heath Over Partly Right Win Women
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONG

Act Age Crumb Disable Little Paranoid Power Utterly Women
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONG

Always Cheerful Confident Envied Everything Friend Practical Secretly Seem Terrified
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONG

Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONG

Carry Momentum Own Word
Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
ERICA JONG

Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONG

Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONG

Alternate Country Create Hard Hate Myself One People Person Place Prizefighter Try Writer
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
ERICA JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person

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