And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGIf, 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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 easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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