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.
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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