A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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