How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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