And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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