Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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