The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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.
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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.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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