It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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.
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