And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGIf you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
-
-
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
ERICA JONG -
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
ERICA JONG -
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONG -
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONG -
The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONG -
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
ERICA JONG -
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONG -
Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONG -
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONG -
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONG -
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONG -
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONG -
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONG -
It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG -
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG