Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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