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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Erica Jong

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
I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONG

Beacon One Piece Sex Travel Vowed
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONG

Bluntest Instrument Silence
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
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONG

Create Death Life One Represented Someone
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
ERICA JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONG

Ever How Know Life Made Think Touch Understand
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONG

Always Anything Before Beginner Naked never Start Writing
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONG

Always Art End Interest People Reflect Sexuality Story Wn
There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONG

Against Always Backlash Idea Progressive
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

Actually Believe Courage Cowardice Cynicism Height Innocense Many People Require Result Today
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
If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
ERICA JONG

Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONG

Carry Momentum Own Word
Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONG

Empathy Excuse Other Our Trap Underpay
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONG

Believe Death Men never Own People Possibility Reason Send War Young

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