If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Solitude is un-American.
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