The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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 don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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