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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

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
ERICA JONG

Block Emphasis Future Joy Merely Miseries Past Present Shadow
The soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONG

Awakened Service Soul Through
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
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
Conflict is the soul of literature.
ERICA JONG

Conflict Literature Soul
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.
ERICA JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
ERICA JONG

Circle Get Horrible Incomplete Look Lose Older Wonderful
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONG

Excuse Full Life Live Pain
Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONG

Equivalent Existence Perception
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONG

Being Brave Crack Everything Fighting Live Risk Worth
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONG

End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONG

Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
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

Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONG

Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
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
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONG

Love Loved Myself

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.

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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.

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