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 JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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