And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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 don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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