The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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