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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

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONG

Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
Why does life need evidence of life?
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Evidence Life Need
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Anger Enough Know Laughter Old Revelation True
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Alternate Country Create Hard Hate Myself One People Person Place Prizefighter Try Writer
If 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.
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Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Airplane Athlete No Turbulent
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Like Something
Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Earth Every Feel Itself Know Orphan Soul
I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Ever How Know Life Made Think Touch Understand
Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Courage Have Magic Only Worth
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Can Delegate Finally Motherhood Not
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONG

Bullfight Church Circus Country Deserve Every Country Get Hollywood People Person
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.
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Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
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.
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Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person

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