The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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