The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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