And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGIt is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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