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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONG

Anger Enough Know Laughter Old Revelation True
A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONG

Big Dog Expand Heart Love Many Merely never New Old replace Very
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONG

Gossip Opiate Oppress
Art is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONG

Always Art Energy exchange
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONG

Doing Fera Right Sign Something Usually
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONG

Always Art End Interest People Reflect Sexuality Story Wn
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONG

Believe Element Function Our Unhappiness
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONG

Courage Dark Everyone Follow Lead Place Talent
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.
ERICA JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
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.
ERICA JONG

All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
ERICA JONG

Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONG

City Liquid Migrate Mirror Once Soul Stone
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONG

Being Brave Crack Everything Fighting Live Risk Worth
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONG

Love Loved Myself
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONG

Flesh Learn Lesson Merely On Pass
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
ERICA JONG

Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish

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