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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

Erica Jong

I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONG

Alternate Country Create Hard Hate Myself One People Person Place Prizefighter Try Writer
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONG

Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONG

Act Both First Name Oneself Poet Revolutionary
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONG

Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
ERICA JONG

Abortion Again Back Battle Birth Going Hope Keep Over Right Same Territory Win
Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONG

Emotional Image Kind Shorthand
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONG

Dead Like Loneliness Marriage
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONG

Endear Friend Love Misery Our
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.
ERICA JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONG

Fun Had Jealousy Think
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONG

Advice Already Answer Ask Know Wish
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONG

Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
ERICA JONG

Brighter Could Darkest Even Just Know Night Special Star Think Truly
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONG

Excuse Full Life Live Pain
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.
ERICA JONG

Again Battel Depress Fight Heath Over Partly Right Win Women
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONG

All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them

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