Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Home is where your books are.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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