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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONG

Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick
Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Curious Indication Most Photograph Reality
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
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anything Even More Risk Trouble
We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONG

Being Experience Gone Human Spritualm Through
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
ERICA JONG

Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG

Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONG

Create Death Life One Represented Someone
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONG

Also Being Ever Fool Found No One Wisdom
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 trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONG

Feel How Joy Much Pain Trick
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
ERICA JONG

Compass Utter Discipline Edit Freedom
I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
ERICA JONG

Accept Ahead Back Change Despite Fear Heart Part Pound Say Specially Turn
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.
ERICA JONG

Bottle Breast Child Cuddling Done Father Feeding Fondling May Mother Need Nobody Paediatric Succumb

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