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 JONGDogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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