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 JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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