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 JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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