The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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