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 JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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