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 JONGDon’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Solitude is un-American.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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