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Solitude is un-American.

Erica Jong

It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG

Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth
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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Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Investment Love Marriage
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Away Drive Easier Goodbye Saying
If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Being Between Body Create Different Do Drive Everything Human Little Men Office Only Simultaneously Tractor Women Work
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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Despair Every Day Given Here Hillside House Lease Loan Me Minute Remember
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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Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Act Age Crumb Disable Little Paranoid Power Utterly Women
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONG

Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Anything Dilemma Even More One Risk
Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Hope Implies Journal Keep
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG

Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Did Die Love Only Simple Truth Wish
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write

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