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 JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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