The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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