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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Erica Jong

I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
ERICA JONG

Abortion Again Back Battle Birth Going Hope Keep Over Right Same Territory Win
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.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONG

Away Drive Easier Goodbye Saying
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONG

Book Call Classic Grow Nature Patiently Shell Them Wait
I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
ERICA JONG

Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
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

Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even More Risk Trouble
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONG

Besides Depend Intimacy Rare Really Sex Thing
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONG

Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG

Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONG

Fun Had Jealousy Think
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
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONG

Believe Element Function Our Unhappiness
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
I look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONG

Back Forward Look Myself See
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

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