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 JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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